Word: bricked
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Thermil Salem is a soldier who worked as a driver for a group of antigang policemen who are feared for their brutality. Secretly, Salem supported President Aristide. "My teeth cannot speak about those days," he says. He served two jail terms. Living outside Port-au-Prince in a brick hut that also serves as a voodoo temple, he never goes out now. "They have spies all around," he says...
Plenty of both, it turns out. On Voodoo Lounge, Jagger and company have recaptured the spontaneous verve of a great working band. You Got Me Rocking, a full-tilt stomp built on Charlie Watts' brick-solid drumming and Richards' saw-toothed guitar lines, has the frayed, unrehearsed ending of a live performance, as does Moon Is Up. Producer Don Was has avoided trying to update the band's sound with trendy hip-hop or techno touches. Instead, he helps serve up a classic collection of rockers and semisweet ballads...
...culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will use his position as a member of the Privy Council to veto the prince's accession. Many politicians less flamboyant than he may start examining such tactical possibilities...
Fifty years from now, people will not be dropping quotes from "The Shadow" the way they say, "Follow the yellow brick road" or "Tomorrow is another day." Film students will not get "The Shadow" covered in their Truly Incredible Movies classes. Reviewers will not have "The Shadow" on their top 10 movie lists for the 20th century...
Plunderers seeking gold were the first to find the shining key that would unlock a door to the past. In 1987 a local looter stumbled upon a royal tomb deep inside an adobe-brick pyramid near the village of Sipan in the Lambayeque River valley of Peru's northern coastal plain. The find was pillaged, and many artifacts from it soon began showing up on the international market for stolen art. Fortunately, three other tombs that have since been discovered in the pyramid were protected and excavated under the eye of an expert. As a result, a team of workers...