Word: dusts
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Most beginning poets don't have to face ravenous public curiosity about their private lives and past histories. Frieda Hughes should be so fortunate. The dust-jacket blurb on her first book of poems, Wooroloo (HarperFlamingo; $20), alludes delicately to the author's "unusual literary pedigree," which only fires curiosity while pretending to discourage it. For Frieda Hughes is the daughter of Ted Hughes, Britain's current poet laureate, and Sylvia Plath, whose stunning confessional poems written just before her 1963 suicide made her posthumously famous and, to many, a martyr-saint in the bargain. The Hughes-Plath story...
However, among the archived papers in Pusey Library, many of which are destined to collect dust and sit unperturbed in cabinets, there exist theses that challenge the traditional drudgery of topics. Interspersed amongst the hundreds of recent, less engaging synopses, a few unconventional and just plain bizarre titles emerge from the Hollis index. For instance, few economists have ever made a mental connection between the New York Stock Exchange and their bowls of soggy Fruit Loops. It was only a matter of course before new horizons in economics were explored and charted Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereal...
...there are exceptions to convoluted representations of fractals and statistical number-crunching so often found in senior theses. Even if not a single academic curiosity is piqued by Don't Spit in the Soup We All Have to Eat: a History of the Dudley Cooperative House, at least the dust mites will become storehouses of esoteric facts and sexual innuendo...
...Dust We Trust? You'd better this time. Mad beats, ingenious mixing and more mad beats make Brother's Gonna Work It Out, the new DJ mix album by the Chemical Brothers a magnificent record. The Chemical Brothers sampled from and remixed songs by a number of other bands: The Micronauts, Spiritualized, Unique 3, Willie Hutch and Manic Street Preachers to name a few. Listening to this compilation of house techno gives an impression of an actual live performance of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, the duo who are the Chemical Brothers...
Rowlands and Simons weren't always the Chemical Brothers. When they hit the Manchester club scene in the early '90s, the two DJs were the Dust Brothers, attracting a cult following at the clubs Naked Under Leather and Most Excellent. Their mixing philosophy and music choice at the time are best described by Rowlands himself, "Big Bass, Big Drums, Siren, Mad." Brother's Gonna Work It Out includes several songs frequently mixed by the Dust Brothers during their early shows. Samples from DBX, Serotonin Project and Dubtribe Sound System all provide glimpses into the past of the Chemical Brothers...