Word: tribalized
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...world, or that part of the world that watches CNN, first tried to ignore Sarajevo and Bosnia. Then, as the horrors mounted, it struggled to make sense of what was happening. But sense quickly short-circuited to cynicism: humankind is fatally tribal, especially in its religious impulses, and it is in the nature of tribes to hate one another at all times and to slaughter one another when possible...
...shattering of a 17-month cease-fire last February has created an exceptionally stressful atmosphere, reports TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. Police have tried to keep the marchers in hand by blocking access to Catholic neighborhoods, but they have been unable to prevent scuffles in surrounding areas. "This is a tribal warfare zone," says Hillenbrand. "The marches have the same effect as a white supremacy group marching through a black neighborhood in the United States would. The most dangerous things that have happened are the murder of the Catholic taxi driver on Sunday night and the harassing of Catholic families...
...singing, not how she was singing it. Unfortunately, on her new album, Gone Again, words fail her. The album deals with issues of mortality (the word heaven pops up in three songs), but the endeavor is marred by one song, Summer Cannibals, which comes complete with faux tribal chants and stereotypical images galore (boiling cauldrons and the like) along with a guttural, chanted chorus, "eat/eat/eat...
...downtown feel is also a bow to the '60s and '70s-- a sort of tribal-rock look. The clothes are cut tight to the body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...
...powerful tribal drumming they now use came as a natural reaction...