Word: soul
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...soul of the movie is Fanning, who, like Lily, has turned 14 after an unusual childhood. She was half her present age when she emerged as a self-possessed little scene-stealer in Sean Penn's I Am Sam, and continued to impress in Sweet Home Alabama, Man on Fire and the Spielberg War of the Worlds. Other kid actors might be imps and scamps, but Fanning located the gravity and peril in childhood. Now she is negotiating early adolescence with the same poise. She recently survived the indie movie Hounddog, a heaping plate of refried Southern Gothic (known...
...absolutely, totally honest I thought this day might come someday, but I was absolutely convinced it wasn't going to be this day. I know people who live their lives waiting for this call, and it's not good for the soul. So I put it out of my mind." (On receiving news of his Nobel prize; New York Times...
Much of Dig Out Your Soul is pretty good, but none of it is particularly challenging--to the listener or its creators. Oasis too has stayed on its trajectory. Noel Gallagher recently told an interviewer that "it's a working-class thing ... I'm not an experimenter." Even if you overlook this patronizing view of the working class, the limiting of artistic horizons as a virtue is worrisome. For all the Beatles envy, it's the Rolling Stones whom Oasis has come to resemble most--not in its music but in its aversion to acknowledging anything but its own success...
...Grindlay praises Coit’s work, saying, “He throws his whole heart and soul into every commission...
...half,” began the description of the 1972 film “Les Demons” on the theatre’s website; I was immediately sold. As far as I’m concerned, anyone not moved by a portmanteau that inventive clearly has no soul. Thus, late on a Friday night, I found myself seated among other eager moviegoers, most of them male, awaiting the start of a movie that would open my eyes to an unfamiliar art form.“Nuns! Now!” yelled an impatient audience member from the balcony...