Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lovesexy, his latest recording, Prince seems to have found a single direction. What he calls the "New Power Soul" sound is a funk sound which moves the listener right along without being too forceful in the beat. As a result, a highly orchestrated sound plays against Sheila Es drums...
Trench warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the subject of more outside scrutiny than that of CBS, and the result has been a small library of books on the network's inner workings. Few, however, have offered harsher indictments than two new releases that try to affix blame for the turmoil and shifting priorities at TV's most...
...moral force of the holy fool -- the part the director's graceful wife Miyamoto is essentially playing -- and, above all, his allusions to Crime and Punishment. As in the great novel, it is a tenacious detective's patience that forces the final confession a criminal requires for his soul's peace. But the entertaining dexterity with which Itami plays this potentially heavy hand is all his own, and strangely beguiling. He collects our interest, but charges no penalties...
That led to two multi-hour auditions and, later, what Mosher calls "small but significant rewrites during rehearsal" to accommodate the part to her. Adds Mosher: "Madonna brings a backbone of steel. Mamet made the character, rather than a poor soul who is battered to the ground, someone about whom there is an element of doubt." Indeed, the play's pivotal question is the true nature of her role, the smallest of the three but the engine of the plot. Says Mosher: "The audience is meant to go out asking one another: Is she an angel? Is she a whore...
After all, there is always one more thing to learn about the soul next door that not only renders that soul more distinctive, but also more worthy of our consideration. To paraphrase a certain cautious novelist: "Actually, with a little perspicacity, one might learn many curious things about [one's neighbors], things that made them so different from one another that [the generalized Neighbor], except as a cartoonist's transient character, could not be said to exist... No, the average vessels are not as simple as they appear: it is a conjuror's set and nobody, not even the enchanter...