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...genre of global reach and lasting import. Today you can hear their influence in the music of the hip-hop group the Fugees, the ska-rock band Sublime and even the Rolling Stones (Stones guitarist Keith Richards has a low-key Rastafarian drum-and-chant album out called Wingless Angels). Marley's career (he died in 1981) was rightly celebrated several years ago by the spectacular four-CD boxed set Songs of Freedom (Island). Now Tosh, who was murdered in 1987, gets the box treatment in the just released three-CD set Honorary Citizen (Legacy). With respect properly paid...
...believers, the strange events at Roswell, N.M. [SOCIETY, June 23], represent the core of a vast panoply of beliefs in the same fashion that Christ does for Christians. Both claim to make sense out of senselessness. Videos of recent events and countless photos of wingless and bladeless craft, as well as the physical marks left on abductees, support the Roswell belief. DOUG PARRISH Howell, Mich...
...fully reusable vehicle (the current shuttle jettisons its expensive boosters and fuel tank). All three eliminated astronauts (although people, as pilots or passengers, could be added later). Lockheed, however, pushed the envelope the furthest. Much like the experimental aircraft of the 1970s, the entire surface of the stubby, wingless craft is used to create lift, saving fuel and permitting a slower, cooler descent. This in turn enables Lockheed to replace the present shuttle's pesky ceramic tiles with a reusable metallic sheath...
...heir to an entire, and in his time still viable, tradition of European painting. Conversation is, on one level, an intimate interior -- the painter in his pajamas chatting with Mme. Matisse in her chair. But its hieratic grandeur irresistibly puts you in mind of an Annunciation, with angel (though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals...
When they first come out of the ground, they are still wearing their golden- brown nymphal skins, which they shed. After crawling out of that wingless skin, which splits neatly down the back, the handsome adults sit quietly and visibly on tree trunks tentatively trying their new wings. Then they set out for a few weeks of courtship and mating. During those weeks the males sing, the paired couple reproduce and then they...