Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor). Charles Ives was such a rebel that his music bears little resemblance to the placid mainstream of turn-of-the-century American sounds. Yet, as demonstrated in this intriguing recording of his First Piano Sonata, he is no composer to snoot. The work is raw, unpolished, sometimes uproariously funny; its New World vigor and intelligence cannot help being appealing. Pianist William Masselos imparts the work's spirit with appropriate improvisational candor...
...Consider Charlie Smith, who last week celebrated what he calculated to be his 125th birthday in Bartow, Fla. A spry ex-slave, Charlie runs a small cold-drink and candy shop and thrives on raw sausages, crackers, 7UP, and telling people how old he is. Naturally, he has his secrets of longevity: "I never drink no green [plain] milk-only chocolate. I don't eat no table food-cooked stuff is not too good...
...From the raw material of this domestic calamity, the producer-director team of John and Roy Boulting have managed to make a situation comedy of piquant delicacy. The camera, like a sensitive visitor, never overstays its welcome when the newlyweds are together. The script, by Bill Naughton (Alfie), has a hundred opportunities to snigger but passes them all by with a warm smile. Moreover, The Family Way often evokes the serious undertones of a D. H. Lawrence story, as it explores the couple's life and the sexual attitudes that lie beneath their parents' working-class platitudes...
...negotiators, sputtered that printed tariff rates on some items, mostly wool products, worth $250 million in annual trade, were not so sweet as those talked about over the bargaining table. A mistake? Not at all. The wool-product rate, the U.S. reminded them, was tied to the rate for raw wool -and the U.S. agreement to slash raw-wool tariffs was contingent on wool-producing Australia's agreement to lower its customs barriers against U.S. tobacco. The tobacco deal, as it turned out, went up in smoke-and with it, the U.S. concessions on Common Market wool products...
...went. Yielding to Common Market cries about a raw deal on a number of items totaling $50 million in annual trade, the U.S. further trimmed its rates on semifinished aluminum products, tomato paste, small tobacco items and eyeglass frames, got lower tariffs for U.S.-made TV tubes in return. The Danes' dander rose over the tariff on live beef, which is an important Danish export. In retaliation, Danish negotiators tacked "reservations" onto their commitment to cut passenger-car tariffs 50%, will likely stand fast on a token 20% reduction...