Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sails in the Sunset. Last year Daughter Natalie, 26, released her debut album In separable and picked up a pair of Grammys for her trouble. Cole's second LP confirms a talent that makes her a strong contender for Aretha Franklin's title as queen of soul pop. At her best getting down with hand-clapping, shooby-dooby funk, Cole tends toward dance-oriented tunes. Her voice is fresh and breezy, with more than a hint of Sarah Vaughan filigree. Well suited to Vegas show songs like Mr. Melody or the disco soul sparkler Touch Me, she lacks...
...Soul-Searching. In a sense, Soweto has been smoldering ever since June. The government had quickly dropped its insistence that the Afrikaans language be used as the primary teaching medium in black schools-a rule that had been the catalyst for the earlier rioting. But the policy change, along with other government promises to improve living conditions in Soweto, had merely served to stimulate black demands for more important political concessions, especially among the frustrated young...
...profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most marriages. Yet beneath the patina of assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with a nervous breakdown." Says Yves himself: "I am ridden by anxieties...
...happen to trip out to Central Square meanwhile, check out Survive, for some gut-dropping suspense; or to Boston, see Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, for more artsy poignancy. Then there's the Russian scifi film Solaris. A friend told me this movie has "a lot of connotations; I didn't even like it until afterwards, when I spent all night with friends making all the connections." One of those. I guess I'll have to go investigate those connotations for myself and get back...
...Fear Eats the Soul...