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...Millare. "We would get bored if we got stuck within a certain style." She, along with guitarist Carlos Tañada, 25, bassist Paul Yap, 25, and drummer Ean Mayor, 23, cite eclectic musical reference points, from the fey electronica of Zero 7 to the studied cool of David Sylvian. It makes for music that manages to be both thoughtful and sensual. "A band like this doesn't come around more than once in every 10 years," says Rock Drilon, founder of Manila's influential live venue Mag:net Café. Adds Andrew de Castro, program director of MTV Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of Dharma | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...only was Einstein's inferior parietal region unusually bulky, the scientists found, but a feature called the Sylvian fissure was much smaller than average. Without this groove that normally slices through the tissue, the brain cells were packed close together, permitting more interconnections--which in principle can permit more cross-referencing of information and ideas, leading to great leaps of insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Einstein's Brain Built for Brilliance? | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...Rich DeFrietas, Steve Flomenhoft) 6:31; 2, C, Mark Casselman 14 (Dave Tretowicz, Hugo Belanger); 3, H, Ted Drury 14 (Matt Mallgrave, Brian Farrell) 18:54. Penalties--H, Mallgrave (slashing) 5:54; C, Casselman (slashing) 5:54; H, Drury (elbowing) 8:41; C, Tretowicz (holding) 9:41; C, Sylvian LaPointe (hit from behind) 13:30; H, Barringer (elbowing) 16:13; H, Allan Roy (interference) 17:00; C, Dave Trombley (high-sticking...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Icemen Topple Golden Knights | 2/23/1991 | See Source »

...Murray's superb individual effort, which culminated with the rightwinger barreling into the net just after flicking the puck over Catamount goalie Sylvian Turcotte, fired up the Crimson just eight seconds into period three. Freshman Fusco followed with a blast from the point which caught the net above Turcotte's shoulder, and Bob McDonald short-hopped home a Fusco rebound to make...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icemen Fall to Vermont, 4-3, Rebound to Bury Brown, 9-5 | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

None of this is to say that Sylvian Plath did not want to die. Death possessed her more than life. But that in 1963 she intended only to flirt with death, to retreat from it, absolved by it, clears her poetry of much of the bitterness her suicide read into it, and allows the poetry an inkling of self-love in all the self-hatred. It means that it is no longer possible not to read her anymore, especially her last and most fleshless skeletons, now that there is the slender reed of her self-love to sustain the reader...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: Sylvia Plath's Inferno | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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