Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campfire rendezvous full of elegy and accommodation. By this time the film has almost stitched itself back together, like the tattered American flag that Penn uses as bunting for his characters' shifting spirits. But the red of Perm's anger and the white of Tesich's soul may end up leaving most viewers blue. -By Richard Corliss
Forward, leading scorer, and hero of the game Joe Carrabino agreed: "We did a lot of soul-searching (at half-time) and decided to do what we could do and should have been doing--in the game and from...
...proportions, it failed to end the war for years; more bombs were dropped after the emergence of the New Left than during any war in history. And worse, though the national mood on a single issue--the war in Indochina--changed, and changed abruptly, the country's heart and soul were not moved. Or they were not moved enough. The proof is in El Salvador, and Guatemala, and Honduras...
...Morally," of course, such conduct makes even less sense. That we can ignore the misery of other nations for decades when it is within our power to do something about the conditions, or at least within our power not to support the oppressors, says much for the underdeveloped soul of this country. All we can offer, too little and always too late, are the mild reforms, cough syrup for the patient with double pneumonia. In El Salvador that cough syrup has been "land reform," the supposed distribution of the country's acreage to the peasants who farm it. Rammed down...
...plant-store employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...