Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your little boy." The image obscured her rightful claim as the most dynamic and poignant singer-actress of her time: a 5-ft. 1-in. Statue of Libido carrying a torch with a blue flame. Her phrasings were as witty as Streisand's, her dredgings of a tormented soul as profound as Aretha's, her range wider than all comers...
...powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea of a woman to her departing lover. Her mood is desperate; her sexual pride has been flayed raw. She can only beg and scream. Bette scorches the soul with this one. In six minutes she wrings out herself and the song, and mops up the audience as well. Her cover versions of all these songs make the originals sound like demo tapes...
These children deserve assistance not because they give the baritone newscaster a chance to drop into tones of pity but because, to drop into my own self-righteous tone it is their right. They suffer for our sins. And we, by having faith in them, cleanse our collective soul...
...comes up to you and tells you he can make your raisins dance and gyrate and actually beat up other snacks, karate-chopping the potato chips and kicking the party-mix in the nuts. And all the while they're singing "Heard It Through the Grapevine." With real soul...
...Terri has been the heart and soul of the Institute, and it's hard to imagine the Fellows program without her," said Hendrik Hertzberg '65, former IOP fellow and contributing editor to The New Republic. Donovan may be leaving because there is no prospect for advancement at the IOP, Hertzberg said...