Word: soul
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TITLE: BODY & SOUL...
...kids get it right away. Nobody has to explain to a 10-year-old boy what's so great about video games. Just sit him down in front of a Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo machine, shove a cartridge into the slot and he's gone -- body, mind and soul -- into a make-believe world that's better than sleep, better than supper and a heck of a lot better than school...
...Conan O'Brien brings a fresh face but a familiar style to late night. CINEMA Adorable Macaulay Culkin plays a bad seed in The Good Son. Into the West is a fairy tale of modern Ireland. MUSIC John Mellencamp's new album is part small-town twang, part urban soul and all American. Lord Byron, Virgil Thomson's last opera, is not Byronic enough. BOOKS A first novel by Frank Conroy needs a sound track...
...mind. This dearth may have something to do with the ineffable nature of music. It is a language of pure sound that stubbornly resists translation. Descriptions may register in the mind, but they invariably miss the ears. Or, as Claude Rawlings, the pianist-hero of Frank Conroy's Body & Soul, puts it, when asked to explain the nature of his genius: "The higher you get, the harder it is to put into words, actually. Eventually it gets pretty mysterious...
Conroy's much acclaimed autobiography, Stop-Time, was published in 1967, when he was 31. Body & Soul, his first novel, lacks much of the nerve, verve and audacity that impressed readers of that earlier book. Its plodding, chronological course never swerves or jolts; it sadly lacks the sound track it cannot have...