Word: rawness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...During the folk boom, each Odetta gig, in coffeehouse or concert hall, was a master class of work songs, folk songs, church songs, and an eloquent tutorial in raw American history. Identifiable from the first syllable, her voice fused the thrill of gospel, the techniques of art song - the wisdom that subtlety sometimes trumps volume - and the desperate wail of blues. If a line could be drawn from Bessie Smith to Janis Joplin, from Mahalia Jackson to Maria Callas, it would have to go through Odetta...
...think it’s a really great landscape to develop any work. Especially in the early days of “Rolling Stone,” it was such a raw, young canvas and no one there ever told me what to do, so we sort of learned and grew up together. I don’t think I would still be working for magazines if I didn’t believe you could break through and do things that were really wonderful. But, that being said, magazines are working with other people, and there?...
...break, she traveled to Europe to audition for ballet companies. Having now joined the ZBC ranks, she faces the struggles that come with the position. “So far the experience has been frankly brutal and somewhat like fighting a war on several fronts...my feet look like raw hamburger...at the end my brain felt like cooked hamburger,” says Moore. Processed beef metaphors aside, she toured with the company in Shanghai. In retrospect, says Moore, “Sacrificing my feet has been worth it.” For some students, globe-trotting and rehearsing...
According to Sohel Karim, the marketing consultant who presented the results, the raw data underwent “sample balancing” to align the demographics of the sample with what the U.S. Census says are the actual demographics of the community...
...resident demanded to see the raw data, expressing skepticism about the validity of the balancing method. Another said he was confused about the “three-tier system” that survey respondents used to register their preferences. “I don’t know what a tier is in this case,” said the resident...