Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside, Hanoi's narrow tree-lined streets are filled with bicycles and pedicabs, for private cars are a rarity in the city. In the busy market area, customers crowd into a tiny but popular cafe that serves white coffee with a whipped raw egg to help ward off the pervasive dampness of the rainy season. Around the corner on Hang Gai Street, shoppers wander past privately owned clothing and novelty shops that are little more than window fronts. Nevertheless, they are the busiest stores in Hanoi. One of them is owned by Dao Thi Huan, 71, a retired government worker...
Hartman's ally is Judaism's oral tradition, the Talmud, which itself mediates, or "corrects," biblical literalism. But then the question becomes, Who says what the tradition is? The answer is, Anyone who can make his interpretations stick. Too often authority is gained through raw political power, or compelled by blind allegiance to a religious sect. But sometimes, as in Hartman's case, interpretive validity is achieved through the simple force of intellect...
...Many people feel that Drexel Burnham Lambert epitomized raw greed in the 1980s and that there is poetic justice in its demise...
Bush's order gives the message that Chinese students are "expendable" in foreign diplomacy, said Hsu. "The Chinese nationals who are here are getting a raw deal...
...dead-end society, The Cook has plenty of eating and excreting. Its characters, sad creatures swathed in Jean-Paul Gaultier couture, gorge on their own swollen hunger for sex, control, revenge. Similarly, Greenaway -- inspired by Jacobean revenge plays and Dutch masters' paintings -- stuffs the viewer with ripe images and raw language. He tests your appetite for intelligent sensation. For many it may be a daunting test, but it is worth taking. Elegant and rancid, this movie rates an X as in excellent...