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Don’t get me wrong; there’s still plenty of room for the stacks, the John Harvard statue and Primal Scream in any young lad’s agenda book. Let’s just say, at this time of year, baseball should have (slightly) more prevalence in one’s mind than Dewey Decimal fornication, University landmark urination or aerobic genitalia demonstration...
...grew up watching Disney films in America, then you too must sense the primal appeal of the baseball movie. We all know these movies, their taglines and possibly their soundtracks. No point then in recounting that classic plot of cast-down Man redeemed through Sport; these films are Hollywood’s equivalent of a motivational speaker. If movies could be scaled in terms of Magical Moments per frame (MM/f), baseball films would surely top the chart, for the sport, like no other, has long been infused with the kind of mytho-poetic connotations that make English professors go weak...
...there another Kelly out there, who might with the slightest encouragement bring that love of creation, that joy of motion, those dreams and ambitions back to Hollywood? Will the movies ever revive this primal pleasure. Come on with it. Somebody?s gotta shout, "Got-ta dance...
...humanistic—rather than intellectual—artist. Almost childlike in her openness, she reveals her whole self while performing. Too intense to be hip, but too in-your-face to be condescended to, she conveys the anguish of existence with a furious energy. Like some kind primal being, Finley expresses the inexpressible and demonstrates the power of pure emotion...
...course, in the hard-nosed world of business--and especially during a recession--sensitivity in a boss might seem beside the point. But to psychologist Daniel Goleman, author of the 1995 best seller Emotional Intelligence and co-author of Primal Leadership (Harvard Business School Press), hitting stores later this month, it couldn't be more important. "Softer" skills such as empathy, intuition, and self- and social awareness, in his view, are what distinguish great leaders--and successful companies...