Word: rawness
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...Guilin's towering limestone karsts are one of the country's vacation icons - don't tend to hide their battery of lights under a bushel. Rather, their attractions are numbered and eulogized and add exponentially to their own mythology. Geology in this part of Guangxi province provided the raw material, and it was simply left to the city fathers to bathe the more obvious attractions in neon by night, to sculpt Elephant Hill slightly so it really does look like a pachyderm dipping its trunk in the river, and to add a pagoda or two to the more prominent hilltops...
...emotional fallout surrounding his ultimate choice of Malaney, saying he was obligated to dump Rycroft in front of the cameras. But Fleiss says that's only half the story. "We didn't want Jason to necessarily spill the beans prior to taping, to keep it as real and raw as possible," he says. "But he's a good guy and didn't conceal anything. He let her know before that show that he didn't think this relationship was going to work...
...given, Hassanzade was initiated into French boxing by a local social worker and savate coach, Bruno Cardoso. As well as taking the young Afghan under his wing - keeping tabs on his education and helping him with his request to obtain legal residency - Cardoso also shaped Hassanzade's raw athletic talent into the skilled boxing abilities that fueled his rapid rise...
...With every voice, with every introduction of a theme, the BSO fueled the finale’s drama with busy passagework and joyfully accented melodies. The pace of the movement cantered more swiftly than that of any other that night, and Levine drove the performance with an unparalleled raw energy.Despite the lukewarm start of the night, the BSO concluded the capstone of its three-part series of Mozart symphonies with a delightful performance of Mozart’s final “Jupiter” symphony.—Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
Perhaps. But Russia has no chance of recovering until demand for steel and raw commodities increases. "There will not be a recovery anywhere until demand recovers. The horrible statistics are showing no signs of stopping," says Kevin Dougherty, a portfolio manager at Pharos Fund, one of the leading hedge fund groups in Russia. "All it really comes down to are commodity prices and demand. The government looks at the market price for oil and predicts that it will bottom out now and go up for the rest of the year...