Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...records, neither Lauper's nor Madonna's efforts come within a mile of Tina Turner's splendid album of racked soul, Private Dancer, or get into the depth and irony explored by Linda Thompson on the just released One Clear Moment. But, as pop icons, Lauper and Madonna are exerting more power right now than any other women on the scene. With her squashed face looking as if it is pressed perpetually behind glass, Lauper is every lost girl's projection of success: a little nutty, a lot mocking and splendidly vindicated, all in her own terms. Madonna...
...final production of the regular season will be a fresh version of Sophocles "Oedipus Rev," to be directed by ARI cast member Ben Halley Jr. Halley terms the project "a metaphysical theatrical experienced that is rooted in the community of the human soul...
...themes of flight and pursuit, of innocence shading into culpability, are Hitchcockian. But John Landis' film is not a genre genuflection; it is a thoroughly modern, satanically entertaining night flight into the Zeitgeist city of the 1980s. This Los Angeles is a kingdom of chic sleaze, where every black soul gleams like Bakelite. In the Rodeo Drive boutiques, Iranian thugs and their bimbos are served champagne and caviar. Diana's brother (Bruce McGill) dresses himself and his apartment in Elvis memorabilia and drives a white Caddy bearing the legend THE KING LIVES. A shabby-genteel Brit (David Bowie) eases...
...England she embodied--sturdy, demanding, eccentric, eloquent, experimenting within a noble tradition--qualiti es that informed his art, if not his personality. As for Viv, she must have been beguiled by the oddity of their coupling, his Jeeves to her Zelda, and by the challenge of unearthing the soul of a poet beneath the manners of a mortician...
Dolson's every word, every gesture breathes defiance so far so good. But are we spring from a true religious fervor? Is the hell is James Dean doing in a seminary anyway? In one of the too-frequent moments of agonized soul-searching thirdly a spectator sport). Dolson reveals to Father Farley the real reason for his bizarre and desperate wish to become a priest: boredom and fatigue from too much debauchery, too soon. But are we really to believe that he would rather enter the priesthood as something of a medieval crusader than take a brief vacation, or just...