Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tangled with an innocent and lovely old folk tale, and this time he can be charged with a particularly unpleasant case of assault and battery. The story itself, as preserved by Charles Perrault, is a legend that elucidates one of life's darkest mysteries: how the human soul lies sunk in a deathlike trance until it is awakened by the heroic spirit. Yet as presented in this "herculean," $6,000,000 version, the myth is just crude continuity for a colossal comic strip, and the more boings and EEEEEEEKs the moviemaker can get into his story, the better...
...cheating, but it is an innocent boy who becomes the victim of his senseless attack. The trouble is that Author Grossman's hero is more ridiculous than his victims, and the social vices he flays seem almost attractive compared to the empty reaches of his own sick soul. But Grossman, in spite of long stretches of overwriting and more than a trace of downright vulgarity, clearly has talent, wit and a savage satirical bite...
...Piaf. like almost everyone who has ever heard her, Vicky is one of her fans. "Piaf." says she. "has the soul of all the poor. She gives you goose pimples...
When the stout, one-man garment center was shot to death by a rival suitor for Miss Mansfield's shopsoiled hand, Boss Tweed was the first to assure the world that the departed had been "a man of broad soul and kindly heart." But the true verdict was given by Erie shares: as Fisk sank, they rose...
...list of American girls who have spread commotion merely by traveling abroad-from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller-must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts...