Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other players, but always reverting back to the whole group, which, together, sings the main score, "Harlem in the Evening." At times the rhythm is off, the shifts just too coarse. When a love song, "Golden Girl," leads into a bittersweet fantasy of death (originally a one-act play, Soul Gone Home) the movement is contrived. During the entire song a mother can be seen in the dimly-lit background greiving over her son's body. While this accomodates the shift, it is annoying and detracts from the main action. The theme song is repeated four times throughout the production...
...journalistic bent. Her photographs are exacting records of late 19th century American life, and her method--detached observation--refutes the notion that feminine perception is intuitive and spiritual instead of rational. Contemporaries were rather taken aback because she "drank beer, smoked and daringly showed her ankles"--a spirited soul indeed...
...German into English, so the weak plot can at least be understood. A rescue from a heathen harem may not be improbable, but the ending of the story is. The clever translation tightens the dialogue, and fits the comic intentions of the author. ("He is but an honest simple soul"/"His head belongs upon the pole...
...reminds us that the place "beyond freedom and dignity" is a place of cruelty and terror, where the justice and beauty and worth of a human life are trampled into the dust. And he reminds us that these values are not things of a day. They are the very soul of a man, which no materialistic, dogmatic authoritarianism--or, for that matter, no relativistic brave new world--will ever change...
...context. Much of the wild street talk is funny, and the acting often superb. Glynn Turman's Steve is a skillfully subtle combination of pride and confusion. Dick A. Williams' dazzlingly evil pimp sweeps round the stage, almost a production unto himself, costumed like a Liberace with soul...