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...glacial period, and in southern Africa the climate was cooler than it is today. Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans. Neanderthal man had not yet emerged, but intelligent beings already roamed the savanna, upright creatures known today as archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly...
John Polk is a shy college boy getting ready for a birthday present from his frat brothers--a night with a French Quarter prostitue. Drinking at the Blue Angel saloon to settle his nerves, he is intruded upon by Ashbe, a girl with horn-rimmed glasses and non-stop chitchat. The two misfits somehow hit it off and end up at Ashbe's unkempt apartment, where she serves Cheerios, marshmallows, and drinks with blue food-coloring. By the end of the night, they are dancing to the sweet sounds of New Orleans radio, very pleased in their shared oddness...
Fatigued assistants are not the only spectres facing the league as a result of the new rule. "I'm sure there will be some cases where Division I scholarship schools will attempt to blow the horn on schools like the Ivies," Penn's Jarocki says, "because of the [heavy] alumni involvement we do have." "This is a pain in the neck," Reardon says. "We've got to make darn sure alumni understand the rules and obey them...
...Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and explained that all animals are left-handed. It is true, said the elder, named Moses. Never get onto a lion's left side. A lion attacks to his left. All animals instinctively lead with the left paw, the left hoof, the left horn. Even cows are left-handed, said Moses...
...Stranglers do manage to generate some interest in those songs augmented by a horn section, creating sound textures not usually heard in synth-pop. The best of these tunes is "Mayan Skies," an impressionistic little piece that is the album's least pretentious effort...