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...Seeds.The title track opens the album, plunging forward with a grating guitar crunch and the dull moan of church organs. The Bad Seeds chant the chorus like oarsmen on a Viking ship: “Dig yourself / Laz’rus, dig yourself / Back in that hole.” In sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter with fame in modern America ends “back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave...
Despite my natural mistrust of any documentary where the heroes and villains are so clearly defined, I couldn’t deny the appeal of “The Unforeseen.” The documentary recounts the debate over Barton Springs, a spring-fed swimming hole in Austin, Tex. As lobbyists and environmentalists argue in and out of court over plans to build housing developments—a plan that would pollute the natural treasure—what was once a local issue becomes a deeper question of private property rights and the good of the community.In the 1970s, Austin...
...flight and the No. 7 seed, was the most successful, becoming the only freshman player to advance to the semifinals of the Ramsay Cup. She cruised through her day one matches, notching 3-0 and 3-1 victories. On Saturday she found herself in an 0-8 hole against Trinity’s Tehani Guruge but won 10 consecutive points to grab the first game 10-8 and pulled out the match, 10-8, 9-5, 9-3. Her run would end in the semifinals against Penn’s Kristen Lange, last year’s tournament runner...
...that the first hypervelocity star was found, but astronomers have believed since the 1980s that these stars might exist. A pair of gravitationally linked stars could wander too close to the black hole that lurks in the galactic core, causing one to be sucked in and the other to be violently flung off into space...
...hurt the contemporary African art scene. “Globalization is both the enabler and the digester,” he says. “It both enables the incorporation, but as it incorporates it digests and dissolves. So it’s like kind of a black hole that sucks everything in and crushes it into nothingness. One must question if one’s acceptance is really the sign of one’s disappearance.”The noticeable absence of many African-based artists and scholars due to financial difficulties is just one illustration...