Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Comcast Corp. and Timothy Neher of Continental Cablevision, both directors of Turner with stakes in the company, walked out of the talks because they felt they didn't have the leverage to get the same kind of concessions in the deal as their competitor Malone. "After a lot of soul searching and caucusing, they determined that they were too conflicted to actually take part," says one of their colleagues. No, it was not true that they stormed out, says an executive who watched their departure, "but they weren't wasting any time in leaving...
...seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain buoyant in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind or spirit, in short, determine who succeeds...
...inscrutable star, friendly and freewheeling when he chats about, say, a favorite restaurant (Jezebel's, a New York City soul-food place), but guarded when queries are made about his personal life and professional motives. Talking about himself, he gives a well-calibrated performance--though he's too good an actor for anyone to determine which of his moods are felt and which are feigned. When difficult questions are posed, he grows monosyllabic, evasive. Asked about a confrontation he reportedly had with director Quentin Tarantino over the repeated use of the N- word in Pulp Fiction, he pirouettes around...
...ONLY MARIAH CAREY'S MUSIC HAD the drama of her life. Her songs are often sugary and artificial--Nutrasweet soul. But her life has passion and conflict. Carey's mother is white, her father is black, and she is constantly prodded by skin-color busybodies to define her racial identity. Raised on Long Island, Carey grew up so financially strapped that she and her divorced mother sometimes had to move in with friends. Last year, in a revelation pursued aggressively by the tabloids, it came out that Carey's sister is HIV-positive and, according to some reports, that Carey...
...couple of tunes are, like the 6-ft.-plus Chapman, on the long and thin side. And somebody ought to tell her that good doesn't rhyme with either food or blood. But passion, not precision, is her forte. Her soul-felt songs are the cries of a woman who lives with pain and learns from it. In the set's sweetest anthem, she sings, "So be your own parent/ And treat yourself good/ It's never too late/ To have a happy childhood." As the lifers and loners in Chapman's audience know, the good times have...