Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite conceal a fear of isolation that only Lennie's undemanding presence can assuage. James Earl Jones gives the most restrained and, paradoxically, the most forceful performance of his career as Lennie. Lolling, dribbling, crushing the life out of what he loves, Jones gives his burdened oaf a soul that more than compensates for his damaged mind...
MOST PEOPLE seem to have taken a refreshingly restrained view of the Democratic party's off-year charter convention, which is just as well. Advance reports predicted a sort of monumentally dubious battle for the soul of the party. There's a character in a poem by Rudyard Kipling, who may be an appropriate laureate for the party that invented the Vietnam War, with the last word on that kind of analysis. "'You have scarce the soul of a louse,' he said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party...
...prime minister to go back with him to the deep North and enlist the aide of the "barbarians" in defeating Shogo and freeing the city. The barbarians turn out to be a British Commodore whose favorite saying is "ignorance is bliss," and his sister Georgina, a tambourine-waving soul saver. They all return to the South and a series of battles between Shogo's armies and the soldiers of the Commodore follow, with first one then the other side victorious, until finally Shogo is defeated and killed...
...entire generation of female rock performers has matured over the past two years. Maria Muldaur, 32, performed in several jug bands before splitting from her husband last year to start a separate career. She now swaggers through a repertory of Dixie soul and gospel like a raunchy roadhouse vamp, while her nine-year-old daughter watches from the wings. Bonnie Raitt, 25, a honey brunette equally at ease with Ionesco's plays or Muddy Waters' music, plays tough-mama blues, slapping her guitar strings with an old bottleneck or steel slide to produce a gutsy low-down sound...
Three fine vocalists, the group descends from Patti Labelle and the Blubelles, the also-sang soul trio that followed in the wake of the Supremes during the mid-sixties. Since their return from Europe little more than a year ago, the group has developed a totally new act and a sound destined to sway the record charts for quite a while...