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...young man squatted beside a steaming pot, gingerly pouring boiling water over the limp corpse of an unskinned dog. In a downtown hospital, all the lights were out except for those in the foyer that illuminated the colorful portrait of Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. The D.P.R.K. lost an estimated half a million people to famine in the mid-'90s, and even now, because of this year's spring drought and fall typhoons, many in the countryside must supplement their diet with "wild foods," meaning berries, mushrooms and even grasses, according to the World Food Program...
...also confounded by lingering comparisons to Patti Smith, which were complimentary earlier in her career but now seem a bit confining. "I guess we do have a passion about the way we deliver and the nature of the things we're singing about. They're quite strong subjects sung in a strong way, so I can see comparisons there. And obviously Patti has lived in New York, so there's this New York thing now too. But she wasn't someone I was trying to emulate in any way on this record." Indeed, Smith, with the exception...
...Once a Day" didn't become a Jones standard. I don't know who wrote it - as noted, our friends at Allegiance have failed to identify the writers (and I can't locate it on the Internet or in any discography) - but it's a well-crafted song sung by Jones at the top of his game (I would estimate early '60s; again, no hint from the CD liner...
Before his clothing line folded in 1998, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi starred in Unzipped, the documentary that took his high energy to the screen. Now he has moved it to the stage in a half-sung, half-spoken one-man show off-Broadway. Mizrahi's chief subject is his own glorious past, and he walks a fine line between charm and pathos when he brings out his first sewing machine and warbles about his need for attention His voice won't win any Tony Awards, but the show entertains because of the winning fussiness that made him a fashion legend...
Heading back towards the hotel, we stopped at the massive Kim Il Sung monument, a grotesque statue of the late Great Leader flanked by enormous friezes of workers surging behind the Red Flag. Across the street was an overlook above a park. Groups of people sat with children while others wandered in and out of the play areas. Beneath the stairs there appeared to be some kind of workshop where men were hammering the pieces of a large machine - perhaps of the escalator for the nearby subway entrance. The people in the park were variously hostile, curious and friendly...