Word: rawe
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...Califano hears and sees the larger purpose struggling within that tortured man. Through the civil rights campaign and the legislative battles on health, education and housing there is a vision held high by Johnson, found even in his raw Pedernales patois. "Niggah, niggah, niggah," Johnson shouted at Califano after a meeting with Southern and Border state Governors in 1966. "If I don't achieve anything else while I am President, I intend to wipe that word out of the English language...
Stone uses a suspect, mongrel art form, and JFK raises the familiar ethical and historical problems of docudrama. But so what? Artists have always used public events as raw material, have taken history into their imaginations and transformed it. The fall of Troy vanished into the Iliad. The Battle of % Borodino found its most memorable permanence in Tolstoy's imagining of it in War and Peace...
...some do not. Richard Nixon possesses an indefinable, discomfited dark gleam that somehow fascinates. And John Kennedy, despite everything, still has the bright glamour that works best of all. Works, that is, except when the subject is his assassination. That may be a matter still too sacred, too raw and unassimilated. The long American passivity about the death in Dallas may be a sort of hypnosis -- or a grief that hardened into a will not to know. Do not let daylight in upon magic...
After a five-year wait, comics enthusiasts who don't regularly read Raw, the underground comics' best magazine, can at last read the second half of Maus, Art Spiegelman's Holocaust comic book...
...less experienced team," he said. "There is more raw talent...