Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shot," the album's opening cut, is as angry and piercing a lyric as Joel has ever written, leaving no stone unturned in the world of jet-setters. But like "Movin Out" from The Stranger the words fall into a repetitive chorus set to a monotonous melody line which should make the song a radio favorite, though not one of the album's stronger cuts...
Each gesture unfolds from within, like ripples from a stone cast on the water. The translation of feeling into movement is as effortless as the flow of breath, and as unbroken. For even the shape of the dance's impulse is that of subjective emotional experience; the rhythm moves as a seamless whole, each suspended pose not a break but a pulse-point, the peak of the wing-beat of a soaring bird. The realm of personal feeling is a continuum, and so are these forms: the body lines smoothed clean into curves, all weight belied by the tracery...
...much mistreated and oft-massacred Indians of Brazil are an endangered human species. Almost their only guarantee of survival is the lands reserved for them by law, largely in the Amazon region, where many of these primitive tribesmen pursue a Stone Age way of life. Under the guise of "emancipating" the Indians, the Brazilian government has begun to remove their historic tribal lands from federal protection; last week a decree was sent to President Ernesto Geisel that ends official protection and gives the Indians title to their land. The rationale was that it would put the Indians on the same...
...standard of orderly farming and cattle raising that has left its impact on European agriculture to this day. They were also expert ironsmiths who fabricated plowshares, scythes and even a primitive reaper two millenniums before Cyrus McCormick. They cut roads through the forests, sometimes paved them with timber and stone and rumbled over them in carriages that had wheels rimmed with iron. Above all, the Celts were superb storytellers who bequeathed a literary legacy ranging from the Arthurian legend to Tristram and Isolde...
...Master Stone Carver Tom Murphy was born in 1904, the year King Edward VII visited the booming port city of Liverpool to lay the foundation stone of a great new Anglican cathedral. As Murphy grew up, so did the cathedral, with stone upon hand-dressed stone rising on a rocky eminence overlooking the Mersey River. Then, 44 years ago, Murphy himself joined the work force on the vast new church. In the decades since, with hammer, chisel and mallet, he has carved more than 100 heraldic shields, ornaments, pinnacles and corbels to decorate the cathedral inside and out; his last...