Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kidder simply told the story of Jonathan and Judith, House would be an update of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. But as he demonstrated in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), his Pulitzer-prizewinni ng book on the computer industry, the author is a virtuoso of lucid and compelling narrative. Here he gives equal time to client, architect and builders. The result is a three- dimensional view of an activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance...
...afraid of singing so. With fellow Philly Cheeses Bill Cosby and David Brenner, LaBelle, 41, has done an "I Love Philadelphia" commercial as part of the city's civic-pride campaign. She can well afford to be supportive. After toiling for years in the shadow of Soul Sisters Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Tina Turner, the singer is finally coming into her own. LaBelle was a major contributor to the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, and her performance at the Live Aid benefit was one of the show's high points. In addition, she has a new album, Patti...
...same distortion of the soul destroys the people around Hickey, including, in more winsome but still painful performances, Barnard Hughes as a burned-out barkeep and Donald Moffat as a former anarchist who cannot decide whether he is more afraid of dying or of going on living. O'Neill gives each of the 17 barflies a revelatory scene, and every actor in this superb cast proves capable of that moment at center stage. The ensemble's energized acting, an apparent clash with the passivity of the text, emphasizes O'Neill's redemptive theme: that everyone, no matter how close...
...attempting to chronicle the most underrated and, honestly, least coruscating years of Reed's career. These were the years after RCA, Reed's original and once-again label, abandoned him as a relic, a shadow of his past triumphs. He migrated to Arista and did a few years of soul-searching songstering (and drying up) before returning to RCA and getting back on track...
...Tarczy is not one to take his fun lightly. "Kenny," according to Fanning, "has his body and mind, heart and soul wrapped up in Harvard football...