Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soul that's been bought...
...Fassbinder, though, the end-especially his own-must have been more a shrug than a suicide. In a preposterously prolific career (some 40 films, and many theater pieces, in 13 years), he had always viewed the soul's most traumatic ructions as blips on an electrocardiogram. The detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down...
More intriguing are a few recurring disparities between Harvard memories and Yale memories. Yale students of the 50s and 60s, if this volume is any indication, were infinitely more occupied with soul-searching quests for meaning of life than their Harvard counter-parts. The screenwriter Herbert Wright (Yale '69) unbelievably puts the quest in exactly those terms: "I misspent much of my youth...in search of an answer to my burning big question: Is There Meaning to Life?" Richard Rhodes (Yale '59) is worse: he goes on for 10 tortured pages in John Leonard gibberish about his search...
...question Costello has mellowed since those early, angry days. But the temptation has nonetheless lingered to pigeonhole the man, though to his credit Elvis no longer encourages it with infantile posturing. There was the soul-influenced Get Happy--E.C.'s testimony of allegiance to Black music. There was Trust and Taking Liberties and, of course, that much-spat-upon, thoroughly underestimated, straight-from-the-heart paean to Nashville and Elvis's love, country music--Almost Blue...
...sure, for when judged on absolute terms, the album is damn good Costello's vocal range and song writing skills are intact; songs like "Shabby Doll" and "Town Crier" attest to that. The backing Attractions are as marvelous and tight as ever. And what's more, his soul is still there, as ideas and innovation just sizzle on Imperial...