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...with an offbeat pattern can lend sophistication to a conventional and lifeless gray men's suit, just as a bow tie can add a touch of individual pizzazz...
...Crouching Ones), demonstrates this double significance. In the photo, a row of men are seated at a restaurant counter with their backs to the camera, apparantly eating or drinking. Their heads hidden in brutal shadow, their bodies appear in stark relief against the shade inside the restaurant, strangely lifeless. The startling image, with its oddly posed figures, echoes the Surrealist attempts to defamiliarize the human body and confuse the boundary between shadow and reality. But, in juxtaposing images of plenty and those of descending doom, "Los Agachados" also resonates with ancient Indian ideas about the continuity, coexistence and interdependence...
...that flows like "Half a World Away" from Out of Time but carries a much sadder message. Stipe sings of a man who has lived a long life and is ready to die--a man whom Stipe himself resembles in a picture in the liner notes: The Singer's lifeless eyes, embedded in a scarred, wrinkled face, peer from inside a hooded jacket. In "Breathe," the elderly man's "eyes are the eyes of the old"--the eyes of the hooded Stipe. "I will hold my breath until these shivers subside," he sings. "Just look in my eyes." This stuff...
...that flows like "Half a World Away" from Out of Time but carries a much sadder message. Stipe sings of a man who has lived a long life and is ready to die--a man whom Stipe himself resembles in a picture in the liner notes: The singer's lifeless eyes, embedded in a scarred, wrinkled face, peer from inside a hooded jacket. In "Breathe," the elderly man's "eyes are the eyes of the old"--the eyes of the hooded Stipe. "I will hold my breath," until these shivers subside," he sings. "Just look in my eyes." This stuff...
Cotonou, Benin, is a city already transformed by democratic elections and new freedoms, despite the country's continuing poverty. The formerly drab and relatively lifeless streets bustled with activity during our visit. President Nicephore Soglo, who won a free election last year, is struggling to reform the nation's economy by privatizing industry, promoting free trade and rebuilding the agricultural system...