Word: fieldwork
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...Lyle Lovett remain tantalizingly mum about their breakup. But Lovett, a caustic songwriter, could be expected to have the last words. Here they are, in 12 choice cuts of 'The Road to Ensenada' (MCA). Listen for the testimony and you may be persuaded that the whole marriage was fieldwork, research under fire for an album of wily recrimination. As with any Lovett collection, this one has its share of the funky-flaky. The opener, '(You Can Have My Girl but) Don1t Touch My Hat,' finds the Texan in a possessive frenzy about his "John B. Stetson." 'Promises,' meanwhile, is naked...
...Lyle Lovett remain tantalizingly mum about their breakup. But Lovett, a caustic songwriter, could be expected to have the last words. Here they are, in 12 choice cuts of 'The Road to Ensenada' (MCA). Listen for the testimony and you may be persuaded that the whole marriage was fieldwork, research under fire for an album of wily recrimination. As with any Lovett collection, this one has its share of the funky-flaky. The opener, '(You Can Have My Girl but) Don1t Touch My Hat,' finds the Texan in a possessive frenzy about his "John B. Stetson." 'Promises,' meanwhile, is naked...
...sprawling 18,000-acre work farm that has as grim a history as any prison in America, Angola might seem like an unlikely place to go looking for a good time. The fieldwork used to be so brutal that in 1951, 31 prisoners cut their Achilles tendons in protest. But today, thanks to a federal lawsuit and changes in prison leadership, the mood is about as upbeat as it can be in a facility that boasts watchtowers, razor-wire fences and a lethal-injection chamber...
Currently, she has little time for fieldwork. As chair of Harvard's music department, she is overseeing a department in transition--eight new faculty members have arrived in the past three years...
...these issues -- bipedalism, the forest-dwelling theory, the question of how high ramidus sits in the evolutionary tree -- can be settled only with more fieldwork. The team is returning to Ethiopia next month, to the site, hoping to find parts of other skeletons and uncover more clues about the Ethiopian environment of 4.4 million years ago. Says White: "We're going to crawl on our hands and knees, looking for every giraffe, pig, bird, rodent, seed and any other fossil we can find." Humanity has just added half a million years to its heritage; perhaps the next expedition will give...