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With his new project, Nearly God, Tricky has expanded his circle of friends and collaborators but stripped down his production technique. The line-up includes Marina Tooley Bird, whose girlish, soulful vocals gave Maxinquaye so much musical depth, as well as Terry Hall, Alison Moyet, Neneh Cherry and Ice-landic cyber-nymph Bjork. The new album is a striking departure, layering stark, multifarious vocals over dark, spare musical lines. The result is a complex and often beautiful exploration of love, obsession and the subdued violence lurking beneath our deepest and most sincere affections...
...game isn't quite as neat as it was when the Celtics played on the parquet floor at the Boston Garden. But if you're a sports fan, your four-year tenure in the Boston area won't be complete without a trip to see Larry Bird's team...
Finally, Peterson included brief, no-nonsense bird descriptions that were as minimal and sharp as his illustrations. One of his most famous captured the male common goldfinch: "The only small yellow bird with black wings." Commit that to memory, and no male common goldfinch flying by will ever again go undetected...
...breakthrough occurred in 1934 with the publication of A Field Guide to the Birds, which covered all the species found in the Eastern U.S. The book, which had been suggested to him by the first editor of Audubon magazine, combined two passions that Peterson had developed during his somewhat dreamy and, in the view of his no-nonsense father, lackadaisical childhood in Jamestown, New York: looking at birds and painting pictures. Since he lacked any formal ornithological training, Peterson brought to his project a refreshing dose of common sense. People could not lug folios of Audubon reproductions to where...
Only 2,000 copies of Peterson's Guide were printed at first; the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, doubted whether much of the reading public would be interested. A second printing was ordered after the first one sold out in one week, and the Peterson bird guides--he added one covering the species of the Western U.S. in 1941--have been selling, to the tune of some 7 million copies, ever since. Peterson produced, alone or with collaborators, scores of other guides on such subjects as wildflowers, butterflies, mammals and minerals. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. He received...