Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that the Solidarity era is now a thing of the past. During a meeting with a group of Polish pilgrims in Rome last week, John Paul used the past tense in referring to the union. "Solidarity," said the Pope, "has been invested in the history of the Polish soul...
...Greenfield, Iowa (pop. 2,244), where the real grass roots grow. The Ideal Cafe, dispensary of ribaldry, weak coffee and occasional political wisdom, has metamorphosed into Toad's Place, so named for a town boy who went to California but in the nick of time saved his soul, bought the business and headed back...
...intermissions; each offers an indelible evening of minimalist theater sorcery. The one visible magician is Whitelaw, for whom Beckett wrote the two sepulchral mood pieces Footfalls and Rockaby. Scraping across the stage or hardly moving in her shroud of a rocking chair, she performs daredevil isometric exercises of the soul. - By Richard Corliss
...rock, but he permits her to wear the clothes of a big-city hooker, a hairdo befitting a glitzy country songstress, 6 lbs. of Maybelline and no bra. The kids in Beaumont have been denied dancing for five years, yet they are as slick as the regulars on Soul Train. Gaffes like these were of little moment in Flashdance; its preposterous story was soft-focused into a modern fable. It matters here, where the young and the middleaged, the traditional Hollywood film and the MTV feature, the music and the dialogue collide instead of merging in a pop apotheosis...
Kozintsev's bold direction and swift timing are perfectly suited to the play's central image of the "unaccomodated man" who ultimately, all alone, must confront the basic elements of nature and his soul. The play has been cut down, leaving only those scenes which further the plot's course of destruction. For example, the fool's part is shorn of its lighter scenes, leaving only the bitter social commentary. Thus the movie presents a Lear of pure and seemingly inevitable tragedy...