Word: lushes
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...farmers carefully scraping opium sap from their ripened poppies near the lush bank of the Helmand River are counted as a success story by Major Mike Shervington. They may be feeding the global drug trade, but at least they're here. Most locals had fled the village of Kajaki Olya when British forces took on the Taliban in 2006, and today their orchards, spilling with grapes, pomegranates, almonds and apricots lie untended. But the farmers have lately trickled back to tend crops of poppy and wheat - the wheat will feed their families, the opium will provide their income...
...carried Black Thought’s workmanlike writing throughout the years. Their last release, 2006’s grim “Game Theory,” was a minor, controlled masterpiece, featuring solid writing and haunting beats. But on “Rising Down,” the lush horns that fanfared “The Tipping Point” have disappeared, replaced by the icy production values that “Game Theory” hinted at. The album’s sonics are unrelentingly bleak: everything’s minor-key. Drummer ?uestlove’s usual...
...other forgotten greats. Which wouldn’t be so bad—the group’s debut, 1994’s “Dummy,” is one of the most lauded albums of the genre, not to mention the decade. Heavy with lush, sexual bass lines and cinematic string arrangements, “Dummy” brought a sultry sort of half-humanity to the genre. While any vocals on Massive Attack’s debut, “Blue Lines,” were samples—and alienating ones at that?...
...each year to patrol the area. But for about 20 years FARC units like the 48th Front have regularly slipped across the porous border into Ecuador - there are only two points along the 250-mile (400 km) frontier where passports are even checked - under cover of the rainforest's lush vegetation to retreat, rest or replenish supplies. Half a million Colombians are estimated to have moved into Ecuador with them. (Ecuador has recognized about 60,000 as war refugees.) Muddy Ecuadorian border villages like Puerto Nuevo are growing and are now overwhelmingly Colombian, says Fabian Narvaez, head of the Ecuadorian...
...uninitiated eye, the exuberant and technically brilliant prints that walked down spring runways at Dries Van Noten, Prada and Dolce & Gabbana might evoke a trip to the lush gardens of Giverny or Tahiti. Or they could appear to be the result of a completely different kind of psychedelic trip. But to those in the know?designers, fabric-mill owners and trend spotters?the plethora of prints this season summons something much closer to home: Ratti, the fabric and printmaking house based in Como, Italy...