Word: bulu
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...group of 40 Bangladeshis employed at the Meridien Hotel were living in its basement. On Feb. 23, they say, a squad of Iraqi troops stormed in and gave them 10 minutes to get out. "They parked two tanks in front of the hotel and shelled it," says Rafiq Islam Bulu, 29, from Dhaka. "When we came back, it was on fire." The Bangladeshis, he adds, lost everything they owned. That night the Iraqis also destroyed the offices of Air France and Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Gulf Bank and Kuwait's largest building, al-Montana complex...
...BULU ZUBU, the Goddess of Fertility (on left) stands expectantly in the hand of her propagator, LOUES KANE (on right), owner of the College Shop, where Bulu is the hottest thing on the market...
This particular Zubu is the last of her kind in existence in Cambridge as all those before her will be found under trees on Dec. 25. Mr. Kane himself has no explanation for Bulu's apparent Freudian attraction to University students, but at the moment he is scouring the Congo for new candidates. Zubu will have her bulus...
...Bulu dialect of the African Bantu language can be drummed almost as well as spoken. Reason: it is even more a language of tones than official Chinese. Where the Chinese use four tones, the Bulus have five-two high, two low and one in the middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum...
Formerly every Bulu man and almost every woman had a special drum signature, like a radio program's theme song-a cryptic sentence full of jungle implications. Sample drum names: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing"; "The giant wood rat has no child, the house rat has no child"; "You'll die of witchcraft at midnight." Messages are addressed simply by tapping out the recipient's drum name. The sender's drum name follows, then the message...