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...love-thees" cling to Hollander's pages like damp, juvenile kisses. Hollander's newest book of poetry, Figurehead, insulted my delicate romantic sensibilities at first with its apparent lack of poeticized emotion and what seemed overly intellectual, self-conscious and anal attention to grandiose metrical dexterity, complete with a hyper-inflated vocabulary that rivals Webster...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Literary Figurehead Writes Serious Poetry | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...climactic introduction is just a prelude to ten long, indistinguishable tracks. Gedida has everything--hip hop, London dance beats, samplings from Rob Base & E-Z Rock, industrial tones, traditional chants, Egyptian indigenous bluesy pop and Arabic lyrics about truth and political oppression--but these flavors are over-fused and hyper-blended into watered-down mush. In including too much, Gedida is mostly empty and ineffective. It doesn't make you want to dance, it makes you want to shop. Perhaps a late-'90s Ofra Haza, Atlas has produced ideal background music for burning incense, vintage clothes or those times when...

Author: By By JUDITH Batalion, | Title: Album Review: Gedida by Natacha Atlas | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Atlas' climactic introduction is just a prelude to ten long, indistinguishable tracks, Gedida has everything--hip hop, London dance beats, samplings from Rob Base & E-Z Rock, industrial tones, traditional chants, Egyptian indigenous bluesy pop and Arabic lyrics about truth and political oppression--but these flavors are overfused and hyper-blended into watered-down mush. In including too much, Geddia is mostly empty and ineffective. It doesn't make you want to dance, it makes you want to shop. Perhaps a late-'90s Ofra Haza, Atlas has produced ideal background music for burning incense, vintage clothes or those times when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Natacha Atlas Gedida Beggar Banquet | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...life after her, are doomed to act out roles they have no control over. Martin's characters are fully and enticingly written, emerging from the text like the heroes of an epic poem. Culminating in Aisling herself, who even in childhood seems to be a giantess, the figures spring hyper-real from this surreal journey narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom for Ireland's New Generation | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Jason S. Chaffin '00-'01 suffered a sprained ankle and hyper-extended Achilles tendon during rehearsal on Tuesday. Malka S. Resnicoff '00 fell off a table during Saturday's matinee, bruising her tailbone and cutting the show short, and Miriam R. Asnes '02 topped it all off when she punctured her finger while striking the set after the final performance...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scottish Curse Strikes | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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