Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PASTEL BLUES (Philips). Whoever called these blues pastel is colorblind. This is raw, strong and often ugly singing by Nina Simone, who makes one chilling visit to the South (Strange Fruit-"black bodies swinging from the trees") but mostly moans and shouts with gospel fervor about love and loneliness (End of the Line, Ain't No Use). Be My Husband is sung to the accompaniment of a loudly cracking whip...
Authorities at the federally subsidized Argonne National Laboratories outside Chicago heard of Mickelson's expertise in this narrow specialty, invited him in 1955 to start building experimental computer parts, offered to supply the raw materials. Mickelson figured that the demand for memory cores would be so great that even a small firm could cash in on it. He set up Fabri-Tek in his basement, working nights and weekends while he held his daytime job at Remington Rand. His total investment in the new company was for "some wire, solder, tweezers, and a little pair of nippers-altogether...
...financed expansion by selling stock to the public. Today he owns four plants, employs 2,200 people and turns out sophisticated memory systems that sell for $35,000 to $180,000 each. The Government gave him a lot of help, but he had the good business sense and the raw courage to seize an opportunity...
Heroma is a raw little minority report on the narcotics trade in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, made by a group of talented Puerto Ricans. Spoken in Spanish with English subtitles (plus a peppering of Anglo-Saxon vulgarisms), the film is mainly distinguished for acting untouched by the naive semiprofessionalism that blights many a small-budget movie. Topping the cast is Jaime Sánchez as Chico, a well-to-do but restless cat who sums up his birthright by stating his birthplace: "102nd and Lexington...
...Mark Novitch, assistant physician to the UHS, who headed the investigation, said, "My firm impression is that there are variabilities, but not gross inequities in the cost of drugs in and out of the Square." He based his opinion on raw data gathered last spring which he has submitted for statistical analysis. A conclusive report, he said, should be ready within the week...