Word: preacherly
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...asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter cannot hit it?" Marianne Moore, the doyenne of 20th century American poets, was reduced to doggerel when she contemplated the old Dodgers: "Ralph Branca has Preacher Roe's number: recall?/ and there's Don Bessent, he can really fire the ball...
...there was Stephanie Wilford-Foster, who maintained the most compelling presence throughout the evening, drawing the subtle meaning out of the prose selections in a superior performance. In her closing number, evoking the Southern Baptist spirituals from which jazz sprung, Wiford-Foster was nothing less than inspirational in her preacher -like solo. In the band, Paul Brusiloff provides a hot trumpet, while Leon Greunbaum is fine on the piano. A Don Braden solo on the tenor saxophone, a la Stanley Turrentine, was very good once he warmed up and hit his groove...
Warming up about twenty minutes into his oration, Jackson employed his strongest rolling preacher's cadences to take swipes at so-called "Yuppies"--the young urban professionals known for limitless self indulgence...
...always difficult to distinguish between Jesse Jackson and what he stood for. The eloquent young man was a master politician-part preacher, part insurrectionary, part visionary, part hater. Tainted now, however, by racists whom he refused to repudiate, he ran not as a presidential candidate who happened to be black but as the black presidential candidate. And his cause was new-for however he styled it, his cause was that of black separatism within the American political system...
...earning laughs halfway between a derisive snort and the bark of astonishment. Within the film's first few minutes, Russell and Screenwriter Barry Sandier have thrown every visual, verbal and sexual excess at the viewer. A played-out stripper dances while men masturbate at peepholes and a deranged preacher (Anthony Perkins) imagines her dead on the floor. The hooker dresses up in a tiara and a blue satin gown to play a beauty-pageant contender with an unusual talent. Neon flares like a headache in hell, and the screen seems caked with guilt and sweat...