Word: watermarks
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...clear that Enya's most creative and best works were her spectacular debut Watermark album and the follow-up Shepherd Moons, which both sold over 10 million copies apiece. Yet while her later release Memory of Trees continued her commercial success, her music tended to descend into more formulaic New Age babble. Unfortunately, Enya's newest release, A Day Without Rain follows this trend. It follows almost song-by-song the same trajectory of Memory of Trees. Both have purely instrumental opening title tracks. The second song is a catchy made-for-pop-radio number, (in this case, "Wild Child...
...hour's worth of music is the same startling harmonies and clear, almost heavenly voice that made Enya a favorite of fans around the globe. Unfortunately this very music now appears hollow, lacking the spirituality that her previous albums embodied (for example, the sense of sadness pervading throughout Watermark). And without that center, what is left is what A Day Without Rain is: a candy-covered shell. B- -Jimmy...
...ever said it would be easy for the No. 16 Harvard women's soccer team to duplicate the success of the 1999 season. For all the optimism stirred by last year's Ivy League title and high watermark of a No. 7 ranking in the national polls, the 2000 Crimson is still a team that lost five seniors, all of them starters, to graduation...
...mighty have fallen. Brian De Palma, who hit a directorial high watermark with _The Untouchables_ also has a nasty and annoying habit of making really bad movies. Painfully...
...firestorm of debate would stand as Peninsula's watermark...