Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...property. He fails. Too many tenants prefer their own chaos to someone else's order, in this case the Gorilla Management Co.'s. Glynn concludes with an inevitable apocalypse, and none too soon. By the time the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat wrestle for the soul of the building, the author's inspired riffs on urban rot have been overworked as allegory. But not before a strong and exuberant talent has shown his stuff...
...struggled to consolidate their authority over the natural wonders of the U.S. In a big old touring car with Warren Harding in Yellowstone in 1923, Albright told the President he had sealed off the road and "it will be 20 miles before we see another soul." Harding joyously pulled out some chewing tobacco, cut himself a generous plug and rumbled toward Old Faithful, expertly spitting the juice over his shoulder and "neatly clearing the side...
...beautiful side chair (1984), for example, can have an almost oppressive sobriety. As playfulness alternates with the more austere, missionary vision, the American cultural personality seems like a preacher's child, frisky and slaphappy on Saturday night, dour and repentant Sunday morning. In the battle for America's aesthetic soul, it is the Shakers vs. the Rockettes...
This scheme requires Finch Hatton, in whom Robert Redford has found a soul mate, to stand in for the spirit of Africa. Laconic, ironic, elusive and, in his silky way, brutal, he continually offers his lover spectacular glimpses of a great nature. Then, just when she thinks she has grasped him, he slips away into the clouds. Meryl Streep, as Dinesen, is his perfect match. Always at her best when challenged to leave her own time and place for regions more passionate and generous, Streep embodies an aristocrat's arrogance toward the unknown and an artist's vulnerability...
...beat roles as the photographer in The Killing Fields and the blind boarder in Places in the Heart, his portrayal of Gage is shamefully one-sided and wholly unappealing. Brooding both in his personal and professional lives, he would seem an unlikely candidate for the type of altruistic soul-searching chronicled in the book and the film. Even his rigorous investigative reporting, which includes pulling a gun on his mother's executioner, would seem to disqualify him as the son of so godlike a mother. By the film's conclusion, we tend to agree with a childhood friend of Gage...