Word: liverpool
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Echo and the Bunnymen emerged from the post-punk scene of Liverpool in England in the late '70s, and injected a shot of desolation into the synthesized neon colors of the New Wave music scene. While their debut album Crocodiles held compositions of jarring angst, later albums like Ocean Rain promised gentle beauty. However, by the time the group broke up in 1988, it was a shadow of its former self. Still, the group recovered from the tragedies of original drummer Pete DeFreitas' death and suspect musical side careers and finally resurfaced with Evergreen in 1997. 1999 saw the release...
...Hardy didn't have to be told to keep still because he was dead." And with no further ado, British author Beryl Bainbridge presents the first morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George's ambitious photo assistant and sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, an eccentric geologist. Each in the grip...
...Hamilton is night manager at the Eagle, a seedy Liverpool hotel whose habitues "wander in from twelve o'clock onwards...clutching at their down-below parts, ready for their lonely bit of action." The narrator of this slangy, tangy first novel from Britain has seen it all. Or so he thinks, until the Eagle falls into the hands of managers from the head office, who express concern for their "customer-stroke-guests" while remaining oblivious to the shenanigans under their noses. Throw in a racist thug, some lovable Cockneys and Rastafarians, and a whiff of violence...
Ever visit the natural human habitat, a hunter-gatherer society? Very little privacy. And very little child abuse. And little extramarital sex--at least, compared with the possibilities offered by modern anonymity. In parts of Liverpool, England, blood tests showed that 1 in 4 kids had a biological father other than the father of record. Among the !Kung San hunter-gatherers of Africa, the figure was just 1 in 50--and that was without modern contraceptive technology...
...environmental activists notorious for protesting pollution by sitting, climbing and sailing where they are not wanted. Dorry would have campaign medals if Greenpeace gave medals. She was jailed in 1992 for a demonstration in which she and 75 townspeople scaled a fence at a hazardous-waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. And she helped plan the 1994 stunt in which Greenpeacers climbed the side of the Time & Life Building in New York City and hung a banner from the 20th floor decrying the use of chlorine in the making of paper for this magazine, among others...