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...annually on the appreciation of wildlife. That includes binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, records and tapes of bird sounds, computerized software for keeping bird lists, and bird tours that reach any corner of the world, from Siberia and Mongolia (23 days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz 10 x 40-B Trinovid field glasses, Bausch & Lomb or Questar spotting scope and a Sony TCM-5000 tape recorder...
Last week's family reunion in the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., might have been a joyous one. The Bacardis could have marked the 125th anniversary of the development by their forebear Don Facundo Bacardi of a way to produce a light, clean rum. His label now accounts for half of world rum sales. But instead of a celebratory gathering of the clan, the stockholders' meeting of Bacardi Corp. on Thursday was another episode in a high-stakes corporate and family feud. A battle for control of the company has split the more than 500 Bacardi heirs and apparently...
...MARCH was not mainstream. The only major politician who came was Jesse Jackson. Meanwhile, the establishment "leaders"--AFL-CIO, Congressmen and media--did their best to ignore the gathering. But this march on Washington was not a nostalgic reunion of malcontents. It was the nation serving notice that they have not acceded to the Reagan Devolution. We were not the majority, but we represented those who will come...
...rest of The Ideal Copy ranges from incomprehensible to ridiculous, switching from jawdropping pretension to numbing boredom and incomprehensibility. "Cheeking Tongues" and "Ambitious" are both uninteresting melodic synth-pop, with a self-referential allusion to "12XU" that makes the reunion embarassment of the album all too glaring. This is music for icy hip drones, to be filed next to your new Cabaret Voltaire records for those autonomously cool experiences of a lifetime...
...only because of this haze of idolatry, the band's reunion LP The Ideal Copy is difficult to judge. Like "Snakedrill," the record is preciously avant-garde, relying on sequencers and synthesizers to provide the requisite experimental edge. This approach proves effective in several instances, most notably the single "Ahead." However, in the wake of their own myth, their own influence upon progressive music, Wire now sounds like just another aspiring art/synth band. Instead of the kings they once were, Wire now seem mere pretenders to the throne...