Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives rhetorically last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you debase our nation and threaten our children as well?" At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has embroiled the company ever since the conglomerate was born in 1990. It's a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of social responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate...
...peace. The sensible Kat is automatically spooky because she is played by Ricci, the Addams Family daughter. With her wide eyes and genius-size forehead, Ricci now officially assumes the mantle of death-driven teen that Winona Ryder once wore so becomingly. She is Casper's perfect human soul mate...
...setting up the furniture of a marvelous story, the fictional Powers (who like the real one has written several respectfully received novels, including Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance and The Gold Bug Variations), announces that he is finished with novel writing, nauseated to the very soul with the idea of creating another scene or character...
...personal note here: a minor reason for the imaginary Powers' revulsion is that Lentz and several colleagues cackle mercilessly over a newsmagazine's qualified praise for Operation Wandering Soul, the real and fictional author's fourth novel. This modified rapture (written in real life by this reviewer) pomposifies: "a prodigiously talented manufacturer of literary astonishments, which is not exactly the same as being a good writer, though he is that...
...heart and soul of the Crimson this season, however, were its co-captains--juniors Kelly Granat Kate Roiter...