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Dressed in a black sari accented by a "Brooklyn" necklace, other gold chains, heavy gold earrings and a nose-ring, the unconventional guru spoke in a thick Brooklyn accent about death and caring for the terminally...
...takes thick skin to be a Jewish settler in Hebron. This is the only place in the occupied territories where Jews live in the midst of Arabs, mingling daily with their hostile neighbors. "You have to be real tough to stick it out," says an Israeli government official...
...miles down the road from the border guards' shack where Lieut. Colonel Reso Chachua wards off the winter winds of the Caucasus, a thick rope stretches across a boundary that neatly illustrates what it means to have Russia as a next-door neighbor. On Chachua's side of the rope lies Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union that declared its independence in 1991. Less than 200 yards on the other side lies Abkhazia, a former part of Georgia, which won its as yet unrecognized independence last year by breaking a Moscow- mediated cease-fire and, with the help...
...there are no better-known reference points-- and, for Graeme's some combination of Richard Thompson, Lou Read and Joy Division's Ian Curtis. But none of these name droppings will give you the offbeat, beaten-down flavor of tension that's condensed across this record like a thick spring for: in the solo acoustic guitar lines of Graeme's "The Men by the Pool," or in his lyrics--"Dressed in rags made of dust, punishment brown; they hide the keys to the doors that lead underground...
...that this music was "free" only in the sense that anyone could do whatever they wanted--the musicians were liberated from the composer's commands and the composer was free of any musical responsibility for his creation. Guy had sent the Jazz Band pages of the score with long thick line, short sprinkles of dots, "Batman Blams, " and curly Qs, and my skepticism increased. It seemed that Guy was like a child playing composer; now it was our turn for freetime...