Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shakespeare, brevity may be the soul of wit, but to the Harvard Square faithful, there was nothing pointedly funny about the brief message posted on the door of Elsie's Sand-wich Shop late last month...
...time and into the crinolined past. No modern actress has her watchfulness, her fiery reticence, her gift of girlish blush and fluster. Nobody else even tries to monitor the intelligent, expectant heart beating in a virgin's breast. The true Ryder heroine is a gentle soul in tremulous transition to maturity. Not a fairy-tale princess, either, but a bright child, ripe for romance, who opens a storybook and eagerly falls into its pages -- an Alice in search of Wonderland...
...right, but she loves rock 'n' roll, hangs out at music clubs in Hollywood and even has a pop-star boyfriend -- Dave Pirner, leader of the alternative band Soul Asylum. Surely they have to be going to hell on a Harley. Yet to hear Ryder, the two are more George and Gracie than Sid and Nancy. He hangs out on the set when she's filming, she accompanies him on tour, and there are no stories of either being the typical girlfriend or boyfriend nightmare. When relaxing, they often stay home and watch movies (their latest: the British TV series...
...gatekeeper: no one -- neither papal friend nor foe -- comes to the Holy Father save through the humble monsignor. Says a close papal aide: "Whoever the Pope is, he's going to be someone who feels very much alone. You need someone by your side, a kind of soul mate, and that's what Don Stanislaw...
...dialectic is disorienting. On the one hand, the present time seems dramatically immoral, one of the sleazier, stupider, more violent periods of American history. On the other hand -- or perhaps merely as a result -- Americans have become the world's most relentless moralizers, engaged in moral improvisation and soul-searching with a focused anguish not seen since the days of St. Anthony and the desert monks...