Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country," says TIME's Richard Corliss. But even in a musical genre that tries to put a pang in every twang, Patty Loveless stands out. "Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators." Patty sings the truth and serves it up raw. So it makes sense that her gorgeous, pulverizing new CD is called 'The Trouble with the Truth.' And what is the trouble? As the title song, by Gary Nicholson, tells us: 'It has ruined the taste of the sweetest lies,/ Burned through my best alibis.' "The way Loveless sings...
...Buchanan was Gonzaga class of '56. I suspect that Pat's character is configured like a tree trunk, in a series of concentric rings--that his huge family and his autocratic, combative father formed the core, and that the crucial second ring, shaped in adolescence, was raw, authoritarian Gonzaga, which educated his father and then, in turn, each of the seven Buchanan brothers...
...officials insist that time will transform the raw recruits into an effective authority. Now they lean heavily on 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but they will soon be expected to step in for the entire contingent--unless the Security Council approves Preval's urgent request to retain 1,800 for another six months. Even though the peacekeepers may serve only as a psychological deterrent, the Americans have been vital to U.N. credibility. But at the very moment when the country's insecurity is growing, the U.S. is leaving. A senior American diplomat familiar with Haiti says, "Of course...
...exceptionally demanding, and I can't claim to have upheld its standards through my time working with disadvantaged individuals. Too often I have been exhausted by it, or by the infinitely more difficult task of transmitting the passion and commitment that comes with such understanding to a collection of raw recruits. Yet despite its stresses, I think it's worth it. For only by cultivating these connections between the personal and the political can we hope for lasting social change, and for a chance to put ourselves out of business as volunteers...
...Shula get a raw deal? No, if one considers that the last time Don Shula won a Super Bowl was 22 years ago. No, if one holds the coach accountable for his mistakes as general manager. And no, because the coach who once forbade his players to have sex after Tuesday had in recent years let the self-centered behavior of his players get out of hand...