Word: drumming
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...with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...
...riled up about land-use issues? In the debate over the West's natural resources, many of you resorted to what the cowboys used to call fightin' words. "It's time for you left-wing media types to sit down, shut up and stop banging the tree-hugger drum," snapped a South Carolina man. Just as upset was a Louisiana woman who decried "the sickening, arrogant bias of TIME's reporting. The Unabomber is the spiritual brother of the environmentalists of whom you seem so enamored." On the other side of the shoot-out, a man from Bainbridge Island, Wash...
...heard: the Drifters? song book. Their first effort, the King composition "There Goes My Baby," is still one of pop?s weirdest records: a standard doo-wop lament that has four violins and a cello sawing away (a jarring innovation back then) and, like a distant war drum, a timpani that no one knew how to tune and so hits one note no matter what the chord change. When Wexler first heard this bizarre melange, he was more than disappointed - he was furious. "It sounds like three stations playing at the time coming through on one very bad car radio...
...long had it been since a Blackfeet, a Crow and a Comanche had walked this valley together and prayed together and had food?" Too long, no doubt--peace always takes too long. The question is, When will Boggess and other Westerners warring over ever scarcer resources finally hear the drum...
...themselves to meditation, they are able to achieve the salvation - Nirvana - necessary to understand the spirit. Parts of the Basel exhibition offer a look at the monks' lives, spiritual practices and rituals, which include astrology, medicine, music, dance and painting. One musical instrument featured in the exhibit, the stemmed drum, was used to invoke deities or to accompany the monks' singing. Over the centuries monks, as well as other anonymous Tibetan painters and sculptors, created works of art in the service of their religion, expecting their contributions to bring them merits on the path to enlightenment. Art and skilled crafts...