Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grant), very nearly redeems the event. In the first piece she is the pseudo seer, caked in makeup and swathed in fading Gypsy finery but maintaining an inner core of steely rage. Her climactic revelations, hokey on the page, sound torn from the depths of a great and dangerous soul. She has less to do in Black Comedy, but as a spinster liberated in the dark -- literally -- to indulge dreamy fantasies of booze and sex, she melds exquisite comic timing and gesture with spontaneous sweetness...
...veejays--the young, bold and beautiful personalities who introduce the videos--are almost entirely twentysomethings. When I interviewed MTV political reporter Tabitha Soren last spring, I discovered that she is a soul-mate and, of course, a twentysomething...
...message people are again ready to hear. After a slump that lasted for most of the '80s, reggae is thriving in the studio, on the charts and onstage, spawning a host of hybrids and new stars as it fuses with rap, soul and pop. UB40's Can't Help Falling in Love, an infectious remake of Elvis Presley's 1961 hit, was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for the past seven weeks. Also in the Hot 100: Oh Carolina, by dancehall sensation Shaggy, and Bad Boys, a 1986 Inner Circle tune that has found new life...
...exposing this wound, Tiana means to see it heal; she has established the Indochina Film Arts Commission as a friendship bridge between Vietnam and the U.S. Her film goes beyond Asian chic to Asian soul. It joins Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet and Farewell My Concubine in offering a lesson that applies to all families, Asian and American: Never forget, only forgive...
...naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted up have all the reflective force of a Liz Smith column. In one bizarre passage, Morris fantasizes about showing Elvis Presley, whom he never met but imagined as a soul brother, around New York City -- brunch at the Four Seasons, dinner at Lutece, introducing him to Henry Kissinger at the Century -- and inviting him to write a monthly column for Harper's. It's hard to imagine anything more likely to have sent the King screaming back to Graceland...