Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most compelling of these images are theones that picture the living with the dead, forexample a mother with her dead child, or a wifewith her dead husband shocking sights indeed: asternly dressed woman holding a desiccated babywith a sting of blood dripping out of its mouth,for example, or a whole family killed in some sortmass-murder, clad in their finest and with bulletwounds sloppily stitched...
Only last year, however, did officials realize the scale of the slaughter. A sting operation organized by TRAFFIC, an organization that monitors the wildlife trade for the World Wildlife Fund, uncovered a vast poaching network. In one bust last August, New Delhi police found 850 lbs. of tiger bone (equivalent to 42 tigers) and eight pelts. Sansar Chand, a dealer who surrendered last December, has nearly two dozen wildlife cases pending against him. Given the ease with which traffickers can manipulate India's glacial judicial system -- where cases can drag on for decades -- arrest is often only an inconvenience...
Once killed, many tigers join the corpses of leopards, jackals and other animals in a grotesque procession by cart and truck that leads ultimately to a series of tenements along a narrow, filthy alley in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar. In one cluster of squalid apartments, the TRAFFIC sting operation discovered more than a dozen families engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. There the once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their...
...waiting to be written, but actually a few good ones too. This truism is fulfilled on singer Danny Peck's new self-titled releases. Full of original songs, Danny Peck begins his album by sounding like Michael Penn imitating Peter Gabriel, and ends up sounding like Jeffrey Gaines imitating Sting. If this seems like a nonsensical collection of eclectic styles, you're right. The main problem is that Peck cannot pull one distinctive strength out of all this diversity of attempts...
...inspires Peck's musical eclecticism, and how he imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds like it belongs on Sting's last album. Add in a trumpet solo (as Peck does on many tunes), a walking bass and sampled strings, and you have a very curious tune. It has the same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices, and performer personalities...