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Much has been said (and written) about this book—Murdoch is popular and probably doesn’t need another recommendation. But I think that this book mysteriously seems dowdy to college students, when in fact its images are fresh and impressive to a young reader...
...Murdoch expresses this desire to return through a well orchestrated series of images, all of which seem to follow from the original depiction of Dora with the butterfly in her hands...
...Dora is one good example of what “The Bell” conveys so richly—what Murdoch describes as the “obscure centre of emotional tension” that characterize people’s feelings for one another...
...together in 1996 - seemed to predict. Now there's a seventh album, The Life Pursuit, that again shows the septet to be more than capable of charming the world beyond the already devoted. So will this one be the real breakthrough? "I'm a late starter," says Stuart Murdoch, the band's 37-year-old lead singer and chief songwriter, from a corner table in Uisge Beatha (Scots Gaelic for water of life from which the word whisky derives) in Glasgow's West End. He's nursing a rare dram, and only a stuffed stag's head on the wall...
...likes to project, they are seven seriously talented musicians. It’s gratifying, then, that they’ve found success in a production strategy that lets them react to each other in the studio. That sense of playful collaboration rewards more and more with each listen. Lyrically, Murdoch sticks to what has worked in the past: stories about misfits. The title character of the song “Sukie in the Graveyard” spends her time making grave rubbings, lives illegally in the attic of an art school she’s not enrolled in, and poses...