Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Susann and Chubby Checker, as one of poor taste is symptomatic of the blindness that characterizes our Soviet watching. The items that Andropov has acquired provide an answer to the question: What do Americans read and listen to? From the Soviets' perspective, the masses are the heart and soul of a nation. It is a crucial question for them to ask. Our answer, as reflected by the Andropov collection, is regrettable. David Ish San Francisco
...clothes make the man, interior decoration can sometimes be a vivid expression of the soul of a society. American Decorative Arts by Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz (Abrams; 405 pages; $65) forages through the American experience as expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated...
...there is an even more important reason why he is easy prey: because he bares his soul to us. He lets us see his values, his struggles, the contradictions with which his life is fraught. He chooses to be no more and no less than a human being to us. Not only does this make him open to attack, but it can hurt us if we let it, because it forces us to see our own humanness...
...initial shock, that the cast of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (CBS, Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m. E.S.T.) can let fly with a little song in the midst of familial trauma and, when spirits are high, literally kick up their heels. The show still looks like the Waltons visiting Soul Train...
...that decided Czechoslovakia deserved an invasion in 1968. He has also been a longtime quasher of dissidents, and was eager to remove civil liberties from Poland. Noteworthy as such information is, none of it has the exhilarating effect of making one suspect Mr. Andropov has the gypsy in his soul...