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...organic percussive noise sounds throb in the background and spiral back and forth between the stereo channels. It seems strange to describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track as “sparse” and “restrained,” but both of these adjectives are apt to describe this, given the context of the recent V8rdom material and especially eYe’s Visian Recreation Newsound remixes. The drums continue to build in the track, until 4:33, when a piano(!) enters into the fray, weaving improvisational lines in with Yoshimi’s continued vocal...
...simply label the second track on the album, the 20:03 “House of Sun,” as “sort of boring” would not entirely be doing it justice, despite the fact that in truth, it is sort of boring. A more apt description would be that it is clearly meant for idiosyncratic listening: the swelling and intertwining sitars, guitars, flutes, and blend of obscure and traditional string instruments, flowing together with seemingly little to no percussion dividing it up (let alone any trace of the pervasive drum torrents of the previous track...
Bond observes the same phenomenon. “[Positions at Harvard] are obviously coveted positions but there is a very low turnover at Harvard,” he says. “When you get in there you’re apt to stay...
...version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and restaged this fall by Jeff Church of the Coterie Theater in Kansas City, Mo., features one prop, a cage on wheels, and four actors--including, in a startling but wonderfully apt innovation, one for Jekyll and another for Hyde...
...first position, 17 the second; five allow Election Day registration, and in North Dakota you can just show up. Generally, Republicans take the more restrictive view, Democrats the more inclusive one. Reason: poor voters, who tend to vote Democratic, move more often than wealthier ones and are thus less apt to know their appropriate precinct. Lawsuits over provisional ballots have already sprung up in five states. In Michigan, a federal judge ruled for the more inclusive interpretation. The Florida Supreme Court took the narrower home-precinct position, as did a federal appeals court in Ohio. Missouri tried to split...