Word: rawe
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...nose and mouth and a bulbous body with little appendages. And there was a caption that said, 'My name is Jimmy, but they call me the hideous penguin boy.' And I got this weird chill." As Penguin, DeVito gamely spewed black bile (food coloring and mouthwash) and ate raw fish (seasoned with lemon). DeVito, auteur of his own dark comedies Throw Momma from the Train and War of the Roses, is now directing Nicholson in Hoffa. He says the only thing he would have done differently if he had directed Batman Returns is "make love to the leading lady...
...such solidarity. European nations, pressured by powerful green movements of their own, sound quite progressive on environmental issues, but they are still not very good at enforcing their antipollution laws. Japan, stung by its image as an ecological outlaw for its whaling practices and its insatiable appetite for raw wood, seems determined to present itself in these talks as an environmental world leader...
...bulk of the pressurized suits makes physical activity extremely awkward and quickly exhausting. Astronauts have found that their hands chafe sorely, particularly the fingertips, which can be rubbed so raw that the deltas, whorls and ridges of their fingerprints disappear. But the Endeavour crew accomplished its spectacular mission and, just for the record, completed a fourth jaunt in space before preparing for their scheduled return home...
...panic is premature. Despite the early alarms, it turns out that the study says no such thing. In fact, it can't, since the authors haven't finished analyzing the raw data yet. As everyone from pollsters to physicists know, raw numbers can be misleading until they have been subjected to statistical analysis. Says Dr. Anthony Miller, the University of Toronto researcher: "Anyone who says the statistics lead to such a conclusion at this point is wrong...
Like its two predecessors, The Gates of Ivory offers fascinating answers to such questions. For one thing, incorporating raw reality tends to bend a novel out of artistic shape. Drabble's principal narrator, who sometimes seems omniscient and at other times just as confused as the characters in the story, wonders at one point whether it is even justifiable to extract a novel from the chaos of modern life. "A queasiness, a moral scruple overcomes the writer at the prospect of selecting individuals from the mass of history, from the human soup. Why this one, why not another...