Word: conch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier work. The face of the great 9th century Vishnu figure from the town of Siem Reap bears an imperious expression, and the god's four hands, grasping his symbolic attributes--a club for knowledge, a ball signifying the earth, a chakra or disc symbolizing power and a conch betokening water and the origins of existence--are the embodiment of serene control. Yet there is immense physical energy contained in some Khmer pieces, like the 10th century pediment from Banteay Srei, a marvel of crisp carving and design in which the epic hero Bhima is seen leaping into...
...music of composer and sound designer Bruce Odland brings the songs of the spirit Ariel (Benjamin Evett) to life. Evett's great falsetto and mysterious vibrato make the songs sound magical and strange. Yet his conch shell allows for diversity: Ariel does everything from a rap segment-using the conch as percussion-to a call in which he speaks through the amplifying and distorting shell...
...blown conch, steeped...
This particular Sunday, however, Constant is a squeaky-clean presidential candidate out looking for votes in some distant election, dispensing pork- barrel promises, anti-U.S. rhetoric and a little voodoo. His two-car convoy heads for the hamlet of Montrouis, where he stops for cola drinks and conch while shaking the hands of awed peasants. In the town of St. Marc he promises an electrification project, then tucks into a helping of fried goat. Later he rants to farmers about Haiti's exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and promises that FRAPH will poison the water supply...
...crash of his new BMW in East Bengal. But in 1992 emissaries to the Tibetan district of Lhathok located an apple-cheeked, appropriately aged boy named Ugen Thinley, son of a shepherd named Dondup and his wife Lolaga. Local lamas reported that at his birth rainbows had appeared and conch shells sounded, and a bird alighted on his father's tent and "sang a beautiful song." The joyous news was faxed to the Dalai Lama, who affirmed the choice with his own prophetic dreams...