Word: whaled
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Those are Dr. Dre's shouted instructions, heard through a storm of bass and beats so deafening that a full-size couch is actually lurching off the ground, like a great green whale preparing to breach. Realizing that he can't be heard, Dre touches a button on the mixing board and the music stops. "I need louder cellos," he says in a normal voice to the recording-studio technician. Then quietly to himself, "Cellos make everything sound evil...
...Irwin admits that FLW's fortunes might be different if he hadn't landed the whale: he persuaded Lee Scott, now CEO of the cautious but deep-pocketed Wal-Mart, to make the retailer FLW's marquee sponsor. "I said, 'Lee, we've got a program that is absolutely your customer,'" recalls Jacobs. "He said, 'Look, we don't do those kinds of things.'" They...
...marked the anniversary of the 1983 anti-Tamil riots, when more than 400 people died, provoking the ongoing civil war. Three weeks ago President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament for two months after her People's Alliance government lost its majority in the 225-seat body. GREAT BRITAIN Save the Whales Despite intense pressure from Japan and Norway, the International Whaling Commission meeting in London ended without a vote on repealing a ban on commercial whaling. Japan, which catches several hundred Minke whales annually for "scientific research," and Norway, which did not sign the 1986 moratorium, argued that populations of several...
When U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada in 1983, troops from six other tiny Caribbean island nations were right behind the Americans. Last week, at a highly contentious International Whaling Commission meeting in London, Grenada and four of its former invaders - Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - stood side-by-side with Japan in angry skirmishes with the U.S. and its anti-whaling allies over the future of the earth's largest mammal. Amid allegations that Japan had bought the votes of the five island states, as well as those of St. Kitts and Nevis...
...himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized be-ins. He called himself a planetary enzyme and "sort of smelled like a hoagie with onions all the time," as a friend puts it. For Philadelphia, a social and political backwater in which consciousness raising was a billy club to the head, Einhorn was, all alone...