Word: bushmen
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Harry Shearer, the comedian, writer, actor (This Is Spinal Tap) and ubiquitous voice on The Simpsons, ventures into political satire in his new album, Songs of the Bushmen (Courgette Records). The CD takes musical potshots at Administration figures ranging from Condi Rice to Karl Rove, but what has got at least some people upset is its cover: the President with a bone through his nose, an image that prompted radio and billboard powerhouse Clear Channel to ban billboard ads for the album. Shearer talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the controversy, the state of political satire and the chances...
...difficulty of successfully appropriating multiple influences to make something that both works and makes bodies work. From their name alone, !!! aspire to be all unexpected fun—or cultural pirates. The symbol ! is used to denote a mouth-click in the language of the Bushmen. !!! has co-opted the pronunciation to be “sound-sound-sound” —that is, insert any monosyllabic sound you like, be it bam-bam-bam, wo-wo-wo, or, the most well-known, chk-chk-chk. Crowding the stage with eight interchangeable-looking white guys, including three members...
...York City. Last month some 1,500 customers thronged to the unveiling, which featured the Millennium Star, one of the world's largest flawless diamonds, weighing 203 carats. Also in attendance: protesters from Survival International, a charity that has dogged the De Beers Group for allegedly helping push the bushmen of Botswana off their land. De Beers LV, the retail joint venture with LVMH, is operated independently of the parent company but has still drawn the ire of human-rights activists. Undaunted by such controversy, De Beers LV CEO Guy Leymarie says, "Our business here is to seduce the consumer...
...Ma’s most famous projects is an extension of an anthropology course that he took his freshman year with Professor Irven DeVore. Fascinated by DeVore’s lectures about the Bushmen of Africa, in the late 1980s, Ma traveled to the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa to study and perform music with them...
MOVIE The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story "A riveting documentary about Bushmen who still hunt by chasing animals down on foot...