Word: soul
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...This is the fact to which the current Peninsula staffers must be referring on the De Scopulo page, which contains the following sneering words: "Art lmitates Life: Demons [a current play]...stretches the limits of imagination. In it a Harvard Divinity school 'professor of Christian morals' sells his soul to the devil. Where do they get this stuff...
Comparing homosexuality to selling one's soul to the devil? Is this what Peninsula means by "affirming the dignity of the homosexual"? The highminded, bombastic rhetoric found in Landry's piece seems a little undermined by snide wisecracks such as this. With such nastiness masquerading as a service to benighted Harvard liberals, no wonder Peninsula is so defensive about its intellectual legitimacy...
...female lead in two huge hits, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and in the new box-office favorite French Kiss, she is also the current soul of romantic comedy. And what you see on screen is what you get on the set. "She's adorable, huggable, smart, funny and strong," says French Kiss director Lawrence Kasdan, listing the five Comic Heroine virtues as if they had been minted for Ryan. "Men want to be married to her, and women want to be her friends.'' Says Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and directed Sleepless...
...group's choirmaster, complains that the monks have earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the leaking roof over their medieval cloister. In response, the monks have followed the example of secular recording stars from time immemorial: they've switched labels. Their new CD, The Soul of Chant, was released last month by Milan Records, a smaller classical label...
...draft numbers, others in Vietnam were praying just to stay alive. Whether the war was right or wrong meant nothing if you were in the middle of a firefight. Trapped in war's reality, young men lost more than arms and legs; they lost pieces of their soul. We all realized at some point that we would never fully return home again...