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...party trick of turning lumps of coal into diamonds. The Dentists' powers aren't dissimilar; they are using the normal musical fuels-four boys, no girls, two guitars, verse/ chorus/ verse/ chorus/ bridge/ verse/ chorus, two or three riffs per song, and one memorable line to provide the title--raw materials more common in the pop music "underground" than coal under the real ground. And their lyrical and emotional raw materials are equally commonplace; lead guy and stripedshirt collector Mick Murphy sings about wanting to escape his friends for a while ("Mr. Spaceman"); about not understanding why his girlfriend left...
...every prank could be traced to one pair of doors: one a dank red and the other proudly sporting purple and gold. The Crimson and Lampoon waged war on each other with fiery zeal. Thefts, kidnappings and public embarrassment were their tools in a bloody, century-old feud. The raw hate hovering in the atmosphere between Bow and Plympton streets made dogs howl and plants wither...
Long ago, Californians resolved to live with their particular dangers. They come packaged with the sunshine, the freedom and the raw possibilities of paradise. But now, after Northridge, for some the most telling decline is a kind of mortal normality. "We are in the process of rediscovering our reality, our ordinariness, aren't we?" observes Neil Morgan, a columnist for < the San Diego Union-Tribune. "The uniqueness we assumed we had has come unraveled. We are so much more like the rest of the country, and we have problems. I mean, what the hell, they have snow...
...really believes such a practiced sound bite, least of all the skaters themselves. But Tonya Harding is not -- nor has she ever been -- like most skaters. She is neither politic nor polished, sociable nor sophisticated. Instead, she is the bead of raw sweat in a field of dainty perspirers; the asthmatic who heaves uncontrollably while others pant prettily; the pool- playing, drag-racing, trash-talking bad girl of a sport that thrives on illusion and politesse. While rivals fairly float through their programs, she's the skater who best bullies gravity. She fights it off like a mugger, stroking...
What Washington does know is that the North Koreans have extracted some plutonium -- the raw material for weapons -- from its 5-megawatt nuclear power plant at Yongbyon, but the U.S. does not know exactly how much. Experts think it could be as much as 12kg (26 lbs.), which would be enough for one or two bombs -- if Pyongyang's engineers are able to build them...