Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compelling Tracks makes you realize why you fell in love with his music in the first place. Springsteen found--and still finds--poetry in ordinary working-class life, in guys who work in car washes, guys doing hard time and guys who finished tours of Vietnam. He sees the raw beauty in the North Jersey skyline, in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets and in the darkness on the edge of town. Sure, he has faltered at times and made music that seemed overly domesticated, but Tracks vigorously documents Springsteen's struggle to stay committed to his core subject...
...government quickly takes action against the infection, forcing those already blind and those thought exposed to the virus to quarantine themselves within a mental hospital. Within the wards the inmates struggle to retain their humanity in an atmosphere in which hygiene is not an option, food is scarce and raw, and instinct threatens to rule their passions and actions. A militant group of inmates soon takes command of the wards, raping the women and killing anyone who disobeys them. Excrement, garbage, blood and corpses slowly fill the hospital as, with horror, the inmates feel themselves sinking further and further away...
...unemployed: while 73% of film and television writers in their 20s are working, the figure drops to 59% for those in their 30s, and on down to 32% for those in their 50s. Of course, it's conceivable that these numbers are a reflection less of raw, hurtful prejudice than of the sad truth that older writers, to give but one example, just aren't funny enough to write for Veronica's Closet--and how unfunny that must be. Neither explanation, I might add, is much comfort for someone on the cusp of a fifth decade...
...videotaping his children's every last sneeze. I don't even own a video camera. I borrow one now and then to record choice events, like last weekend when toddler Clementine finally deigned to take her first E.T.-like steps. But this time, rather than record 90 minutes of raw, uncut video--which, let's not pull any sentimental punches here, would be unwatchable beyond the first two minutes--I decided to make a real movie. I had in mind something that was edited--with transitions, a sound track and a voice-over; something that would be amusing to watch...
...federal building--mounted by that lately easiest-to-despise of all groups, Arab fanatics. A panicked government institutes martial law, which includes internment camps and occasional descents into torture when no one can think of any better solution to a crisis. As a result, there's plenty of (literally) raw material to keep the action fans happy...