Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students, I think the structures and resources for assistance at Harvard are generally impressive, although much better training of resident tutors and proctors for recognizing subtle signs would help greatly. Please, make my public "soul-baring" more than an exercise in agonizing self-exposure! Your education, indeed your lives, should be better...
...While this nine-play, six-hour vision of the making of America hits all the traditional themes of patriotic pageantry, it sees the national character as violent, deceitful and cruel. Firearms or knives are used in seven of the plays. The other two practice violence of the soul -- a bankruptcy "trial" that turns a man into a serf on land he owned, and a coal-mining contract, foisted on an illiterate, that turns his homestead into a moonscape for a fee of a dollar an acre. Although the plays trace the fortunes of seven generations of three intertwined families, there...
...nearly a cartoon -- sunny, outgoing, impossible to dislike no matter how nasty he is being. During a typical show, he'll also play any number of wild supporting characters, as broadly drawn as a third-grader's art-class project. An auto mechanic who won't stop singing soul songs. A runny-nosed child with an MIA mother. An extension-wearing, finger-snapping round-the-way girl from across the hall. Martin is a post- Cosby Show farce, a show for the I-am-not-a-role-model Age of Charles Barkley, a comic romp that puts the "id" back...
...There are possible exceptions. De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate and the Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde come to mind. But De La has always worked on the fringes, and their ability to influence the hip-hop community is limited. I'll get to the Pharcyde later...
...sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby's diary, which records experiences, the personalities she encounters and her gradual self-understanding as she ekes out a life and learns to "survive with her soul intact...