Word: fervors
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...album is a little masterpiece of gospel music, mixing the real thing (as performed by the Angels of Mercy, Patti LaBelle, Albertina Walker) with soulful tributes from pop acolytes (John Pagano, Wynonna Judd, Lyle Lovett). But the movie, like The Bodyguard, doesn't live up to the craft or fervor of its music. This tale of a tent-show evangelist (Steve Martin) -- he promises "miracles and wonders" while lining his pockets with the gullible hopes of decent people -- can't even take energy from Martin's holy rants and amazing body...
...result of this debunking fervor is that we have no positive images of authority in the service of justice--in a word, no one to look up to--and we grow to imagine that an anti-social stance is more praiseworthy and intelligent than admiration for those above...
...home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like a reverie from O Pioneers! Or maybe Wisconsin Death Trip...
...Avila the real thing? Officially, both Washington and Havana are mum, although Avila's involvement with Miami's Alpha 66 paramilitary group was long known to the FBI. He claims Castro covertly funded some exile raids on Cuba to build nationalist fervor at home and embarrass Washington. The red faces were most obvious, however, in Miami, where rabid anti-Castro militants like Alpha 66 and Commandos L denied that they had been infiltrated or financed by the enemy...
...evening. Bloom takes us through the stages of her disintegration. She sinks to the floor, wanders the stage, pulls at her hair, wrings her hands, looks wild, childish, ravaged, lost. Her soliloquoy "Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thought, unsex me here" is viscerally delivered, its cruel fervor made apparent. Bloom's composite of Macbeth is unusually harsh. In leaving out the "tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquoy--cutting right after "she should have died hereafter;/ There would have been a time for such a word"--Bloom's Macbeth appears less than devastated by the death of his wife...