Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Bolt and Director Fred Zinnemann have transformed this 1960 drama into one of the most intelligent religious movies ever made. Paul Scofield is even more mesmeric as Sir Thomas More than he was in the play, pulling all eyes toward the brilliant Christian who chooses to save his soul and lose his head in the greatest scandal of the 16th century...
...Michelangelo Antonioni, the most sensitive and profound of cinema's anatomists of melancholy (L'Avventura, La None, Eclipse), and in the film he risks a screeching change of creative direction. His earlier films inhabited languid interior landscapes and unfolded with the large, slow motions of the soul; his new movie makes the London scene with a Big Beat abandon that almost shakes the film off its sprockets. But the change of means does not signify a change of meaning. Antonioni presents for public inspection a slice of death: the same cold death of the heart his stories invariably...
Horsehair & Sheep Guts. All of which explains why violinists mother their instruments like newborn babies. "It's something very personal," says Isaac Stern, "because it is an extension of your musical soul. Treat your violin with love and it will love you back...
Often the purpose is to launch a new enterprise. Manhattan Adman Burt Pence, 28, and Lawyer Todd Merer, 27, invited 2,000 guests to a party in Greenwich Village last week with the theme, "Sin and Soul in the Seventies," featuring a "monster happening" at midnight with a recording of Kate Smith singing The Star-Spangled Banner, a karate exhibition, and chorines in fluorescent tights and gas masks. The party grossed $5,500, and its profits will go to finance a boutique the pair hopes to open. If they don't have enough for that, they will...
...single-minded than Joyce or more convinced of his own genius, even before he published a line. Yet his life was a continuous obstacle course. His eyes failed him, he had facial neuralgia, arthritis of the back, sciatica. "My mouth is full of decayed teeth," he wrote, "and my soul of decayed ambitions." He was to die in 1941 from the hemorrhaging of a duodenal ulcer-his stomach pains had been diagnosed in Paris as due to nerves...