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...beauty of my job," says Cronin, "is that it allows me to be in touch with the rhythms of the river and to understand what it means to fit the rhythms of your life around those other rhythms. When you are a fisherman, one of the rhythms is the tide. To fish for shad, you go out two hours before high tide, but every day the hours change. One week you're having breakfast at 7 a.m., the next at 2 in the afternoon. And all this extends to life on the shore, to the people who come down...
...embarrassing but true: I'm a disposable-camera junkie. Ever since my last real camera started making pathetic whirring sounds as it struggled in vain to advance the film, I've lived in denial, telling myself I'd buy just one more disposable to tide me over. That was two years ago. Since then I've gone through a dozen, guiltily toting them to weddings, Caribbean vacations and weekends in the country. But I'm sick of grainy pictures that should have been great and puny flashes that make a walk in the woods look like a midnight stroll...
...prices has left the country hurting economically. "Even the conservatives are agreed on the priority of opening up new markets and attracting investment," says Dowell. "And they know that despite their rhetoric, that means repairing relations with old foes." So despite the suppression of the protests, time and tide may be on Khatami?s side...
...best songs on the album is a memorable Ziggy Marley original titled Many Waters. The song has a rolling reggae rhythm and a funky bass groove, with Ziggy's murmured, soulful vocals smoothly layered on top. As in the band's cover of High Tide or Low Tide, there's a prayerful feel. The song never explodes; it builds and yearns and pushes on. Cedella and Sharon Marley add soft, sweet backup vocals. The song's sleek lines are evidence of the band's ever sharpening skills and broadening artistic ambition--pop melodies no longer satisfy. They're looking...
...Marley was a poet of the Third World, one of the great musical artists of the century, a tough legacy to live up to, but his children are giving it their all. For the Marley family, the tide is coming...