Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fantasy, a bygone film goddess whose camp theatrics provide the personal mythology of the gay prisoner brilliantly played by Carver. When life becomes awful, he escapes into reveries of scenes from her films. And when life becomes truly unsustainable, he joins her forever in a brightly lit world of soft shoe and smiles. The real star, as so often, is Prince, whose staging tricks are as spectacular as in his Phantom of the Opera. This time they serve a far better show...
...gorgeous, ripened voice of Lisa Stansfield, 26, embodies the romance and sexiness of soul. Her lyrics are succinct portraits of love, seduction and loss; her sound is ardent but never florid, soft but never sappy. While still barely a teen in her hometown of Rochdale, Stansfield desperately longed to join the nightclub scene of nearby Manchester, which was a bubbling kettle of soul, rock and punk sounds. "But I was underage," she says, "so I'd put tissue paper in my bra and sneak in with my older sister. Of all the music I heard, soul was the most honest...
...quarters changed, Yale looked prepared to break through, to finally score its first touchdown in 15 quarters. Santos, the soft-spoken kid from Southern California, wasn't prepared to let that happen...
...kind of blurry. I just kept moving over. I went over to block the ball, it was soft and stuck in my hands. That was it," Santos said after the game...
Well, it is now almost common knowledge in the hockey world--both amateur and professional--that Teddy Drury did not return the following year for his junior season. Instead, the Trumbull, Conn. native took his graceful speed and his Charmin-soft hands to Albertville, France as a member of the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team...