Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While humorous and enjoyable, Translations ultimately fails to produce a memorable theatrical experience. Its lackluster stars and conflicted plot combine to touch the skin, but not the soul, robbing Friel of his poetic voice without offering a compelling narrative in return...
...nickname "Flail": On FOP, I was nicknamed Flail. I was told by the person who nicknamed me that it means goddess in his language, but he's from Long Island. He told me it was the sheer essence of the soul. Flail is fine: I've accepted it now into my faith. I called him Lousy and he called me flail, and no one calls him Lousy...
...teenager, British folk-soul singer DES'REE, now 26, imagined herself a star. "I'd be on the stage," she says. "I could hear the applause, the musicians. But I didn't tell anyone." At last her secret is out, and her single, You Gotta Be, is No. 6 on the charts. What she never imagined was that she would appear on Saturday Night Live, as she did last weekend-she'd never heard of it. With her coffeehouse sound she avoids the clichas of big-piped soul singers. "I can wail, and I can shout," she says...
None of us can shine all the time, but now and then a nonpareil comes along who puts on a good show of inexhaustible radiance. America lost one such rare soul last week when James Merrill died of a heart attack at the age of 68. He was a novelist, an essayist and a playwright, but it's as a poet-the author of 11 volumes of verse, with a 12th forthcoming in March-that he made his ineradicable mark...
...Ship Sailed On Evropa Music by Nigel Osborne; Libretto by Goran Simic The necessity of the arts for the survival of dignity and the human spirit is nowhere more apparent than in Sarajevo. In nearly three years under siege, Sarajevans have refused to allow the Bosnian capital's artistic soul to perish. An emotional highlight at the 11th annual Sarajevo Winter Festival last week was a one-time-only performance of an operetta by Britain's Nigel Osborne and Bosnian poet Goran Simic. With President Alija Izetbegovic in the audience, the production (also seen on national television) was complete with...