Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after you've seen three or four such bleakly comic moments, you -- if not necessarily the news directors back in the studio -- get the joke. And perhaps the sociological point. Time to show us something else, something completely different, if possible. But no, Los Angeles television just kept pouring raw footage from the remote units onto the screen. It was roughly the equivalent of dumping raw sewage into Santa Monica Bay. In effect, intelligent life-forms -- those organisms struggling to make sense of tragic chaos -- found the oxygen supply to their brains...
...Australia, Asia has never been as important as it is today. It takes almost half of Australia's exports, especially the raw materials that stoke the region's seemingly insatiable appetite for growth. Japan has assumed a huge profile in the Australian economy, with 1 in 10 Australian jobs now in some way generated by Japanese demand, according to Gavan McCormack, an Australian visiting professor at the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research. The transformation has taken place in an astonishingly brief span of time...
...election year are a woman candidate's dream. A is for abortion, or more precisely the attack on abortion rights that has enraged pro-choice voters in both major parties. B is for the backlash against the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, which rubbed women's emotions raw last October with its insensitive handling of Anita Hill's sexual- harassment charges against Clarence Thomas. C is for change, the latest political buzz word for voters and candidates alike. "Men are running around saying, 'I'll change things,' " says Harriett Woods, president of the National Women's Political Caucus...
...Russell likes it pure, just as it is," says his friend and mentor Quincy Jones. "He wants it raw." Says Simmons: "I don't think every black kid can look at Bill Cosby and hope that's what they're going to be one day. It's not that I don't think Bill Cosby is a great role model. I just don't think he's the only one or that assimilation is the only way we can make...
...know who to love/ I love them all/ And if I don't know who to trust/ I trust them all." He pours his voice into the mike and what comes out of the amps is a kind of desperate inclusiveness over driving guitar riffs and hard, raw drumming...