Word: soule
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...otherwise unexceptional song is to see his pimped-out mink-cum-red-striped shirt outfit. As he trades off bars with his newfound partner Ali (of the St. Lunatics), Gipp more than earns his royalty check. And if it’s not quite “Soul Food,” it does a lot more in the way of making me show my grill in a smile than does the rest of the song. —J. Samuel Abbott
GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE Rapper Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse (he of the gene-spliced Grey Album--a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) present the best psychedelic soul record since the P-Funk era. Cee-Lo has Bobby Womack-style chops and a willingness to get vulnerable, but Danger Mouse replaces all the moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single...
...recall Albert Brooks?s best movie, Lost in America (1991). Our movies - especially the supposedly funny ones - are so relentlessly middle class in outlook, so often concentrated on the romantic anguish of people who are all lifestyle yet in some ways life-deprived. It is good - even sort of soul satisfying - to see them diverted from their top-of-the-line preoccupations and obliged to scrape along the bottom of the line. To see Robin Williams forced to deal with a family of raccoons that have unaccountably taken up residence in his RV?s oven is to see - symbolically...
...bestsellers—and, by the way, this scandal has only boosted sales for both Viswanathan and McCafferty’s books—I turn to former Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis ’68, whose forthcoming book, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” argues in part that the tendency at Harvard toward corporate culture and specialization has undermined the pursuit of education and true passion for knowledge...
...will be swimming with the fishes in Cabot next year. This Black Men’s Forum secretary enjoys pick-up basketball and Texas hold ‘em. He plans to concentrate in Economics, but the pre-med in him will come out this summer when the brave soul takes organic chemistry at the summer school...