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Such details as an air-raid siren on the top ofWidener Library showed the College's all-outeffort at war mobilization...
Here at Harvard we're lucky. Widener's intoxicating stacks provide inspiration for those who cannot ignore writing's siren call...
...power behind the song, from Dion's new album The Colour of My Love (550 Music/Epic), is her bring-the-house-down voice, which turns an old, schmaltzy ballad into a soaring pop aria. That voice glides effortlessly from deep whispers to dead-on high notes, a sweet siren that combines force with grace. And it is not just a studio creation -- as Americans have had a chance to see. Dion has a concert special running on the Disney Channel through March and is just wrapping up her first U.S. tour as a headliner -- a 17-day, 10-city trek...
...winner seemed so innocuous--with nobody to pass to in the Harvard zone, he flicked the puck on net and goalie Aaron Israel, hardly expecting his dice roll to come up snake-eyes. A simple dump-in, nothing more. But suddenly, the clock froze at 1:55, the red siren blared, and the Beanpot final was over...
...that matter), the songs on The Raincoats seem to stutter, or stumble, or struggle ahead, with Aspinall's violin in the lead; the momentum they do achieve builds up within the course of each song. Standout pieces like "Fairytale in the Supermarket" and "Black and White" (which begins with siren-like saxophone bleats) fall together as they go along, as if the improv techniques of free jazz had suddenly been discovered to apply to rock and roll, or as if-and I think this is the coolest way to hear it--the Raincoats were less interested in making already-constructed...