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Despite its macabre name, Dead Can Dance is not a satanic disco band. And while there is plenty of dark magic on Into the Labyrinth, there are no banshee vocals or pounding beats. Instead, Dead Can Dance taps the ecstatic power of Middle Eastern devotional music, Gregorian chant and Celtic canticle to forge a mesmerizing sound that seems to transcend centuries and cultures. Pulsing with primal rhythms, layered keyboards and ululating vocals, this is World Beat music with a mystical edge...
...full-time eye on Expos to Dean for Under-graduate Education Lawrence Buell, who has yet to show himself capable of doing the job. We'd like to see a more active role fore students and faculty--such as former UCLA writing program head and Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford, in the administration and oversight of Expos...
...Rice ultimately takes on too much in Lasher--the novel is too broad in scope. Rice seeks to link up Celtic pagan myths to Christian ones, secular ideas to religious ones. Several of the disparate strands of the narrative seem intentionally left unresolved to pave the way for a sequel. Throughout the novel one is willing to forgive minor stylistic and narrative gaps, yet the eventual collapse of the historical panorama and Lasher's final confession seem little more than ridiculous. For devotes of the genre Rice offers all the elements which make the erotic/horror/fantasy tale popular--she just fails...
...sure the University's commitment [to teaching writing] is that strong," says Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford '66, a member of the Faculty committee on Expos. "People who teach composition are considered to be second-class citizens, isolated from the rest of the intellectual activity on campus...
Asked if he could name one way students wereserved by the four-year limit, Robinson Professorof Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K.Ford '66, a member of the standing facultycommittee on Expos, thought for a moment...