Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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R.E.M. was named the "best new group" of 1983 by Rolling Stone Magazine...
...sweetest of candidates, a perennial choice but a bit of a Catch-22. Fifteen years brought few political alternatives. Conservative leaders Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark were no match; what are molasses and oatmeal compared to the Jesuit-trained, Bhagavad-Gita believing wooer of Margaret, flower child and Rolling Stone groupie...
...anthropologist finds a "living stone-age museum...
...that the Minaro are Aryans, but his reports hardly evoke the image of an Asian master race. In a book just published in Paris called L'Or des Fourmis (The Ants' Gold), Peissel argues that the Minaro constitute "a living museum of life in the days of stone-age men." They live in adobe huts, erect great druidic stone monuments and center their livelihoods on the ibex, a wild mountain goat that they hunt with arrows tipped with the poison wolfsbane (rock carvings of the ibex are scattered throughout their mountains). The Minaro also raise sheep and goats...
...perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy Saints stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics or quietly, like suicides, and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone...