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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...
...call their duo Dead Can Dance when they saw a ritual mask from New Guinea. Says Perry: "The mask, though once a living part of a tree, is dead. Nevertheless, it has, through the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own." Into the Labyrinth does not always carry so powerful a thrust, but its exotic elements fuse and cast a spell of breathless gravity...
...field to be answered; the U.S. Army, by comparison, generally responds in 14 to 21 days. Eight procurement officers were suspended from duty in July, accused of favoring a helicopter company in letting bids; they say they were just trying to act with dispatch. Budgets languish in a labyrinth of competing bureaucracies, and once expenditures are approved, the U.N. rarely receives more than 30% of peacekeeping assessments from member states within six months of fielding an operation. When the Yugoslav mission expanded to cover all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.N. was under such financial pressure that it could...
...that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...terms of advice on good classes, thesis topics and advisers, a concentration plan or anything else I need help with in the academic labyrinth that is Harvard, he might be a nullity...