There's more to the history and more to the museum, but Mamie Till's choices, in 1955 and in 2003, months before she died, show how telling "the
unvarnished truth" can sometimes rely on a single person's courage.
African-American history's 'unvarnished truth'
Wishing to capture that
unvarnished, impromptu sound for Cook's disc, Hailey says she and the gang built a makeshift outdoor studio, with Cook recording that very night.
Hey, kids, let's make a CD: a night of drinking tequila and strumming guitar with L Word star Leisha Hailey led to Amy Cook's impromptu The Bunkhouse Recordings
Lurie's politics are reflected in Hanson's confirmation speech before the Senate, in which she calls for taking "every gun out of every home, period" and "making the selling of cigarettes to our youth a federal offense" before descending into
unvarnished state worship and dubbing Congress her "church."
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Our job in the news media is to try to discover the
unvarnished truth about the work of our public bodies.
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By all accounts the project appears to be real,
unvarnished and provocative.
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What she does with her Weblog, she writes, is "a raw,
unvarnished form [of journalism] that still makes many professional journalists uncomfortable...."
Reporting on North Korea
And the smartest CEOs create feedback mechanisms that allow some
unvarnished truths to reach their ears.
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The "
unvarnished, inside" quality of this narrative originates in Pulley's two years of reporting and research, which entailed more than 75 interviews, some with people whom Johnson had specifically asked not to participate--former employees, industry colleagues, associates and family members, including Johnson's now ex-wife, Sheila, to whom he was married for 33 years.
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But what's most striking about Jones is her romance with
unvarnished urbanity--an appreciation for fully human portraits of city life, warts and beauty marks alike, that is more commonly associated with artists like Spike Lee and Richard Pryor.
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I'm not going to dwell too very much on the lyrics: heartfelt, elephantine, and veering ever so closely to
unvarnished cliche ("The air tonight is rarefied/It's all I need, the air I breathe/You're burning all my bridges baby/Set your sights as low as they can go ..."--"Ratified')--the magic in this disc is in the telling.
Sam Roberts, "Brother Down," We Were Born in a Flame
But what has happened to all those barking watchdogs who are meant to make sure TV adverts and junk mail offering "cheap" money tell the clear and
unvarnished truth in language people can understand?
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Now he and Mr Hoon must honour that trust by telling the full,
unvarnished story about what REALLY happened.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Moment of truth
Made for just $15,000, pic looks it, though
unvarnished presentation is somewhat compensated for a purposeful, often ruefully funny dramatic focus.
Totally Sexy Loser
Here is the blunt,
unvarnished truth about the Bush AIDS initiative:
Global AIDS con game: President Bush's new global AIDS initiative will provide a massive infusion of funds to UN affiliates that may be responsible for spreading the AIDS epidemic. (Culture War)
Freestanding
unvarnished and varnished engineered wood flooring strips
Evaluation of various engineered wood flooring constructions