Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MASTERS OF POP: INNOCENCE, ANARCHY AND SOUL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). This rock special features the talents of Lulu, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity, Lance LeGault, Chris Farlowe, Don Lang and Lonnie Donegan...
...passed to him and its present condition. Can he be sure of his own judgment and grit? He himself acknowledged the dilemma last week when he quoted from J.F.K.: "The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul...
...lily-white Madison Avenue agency. At his first executive meeting, he looks coldly around a conference table filled with apprehensive underlings. "I'm not gonna rock the boat," he promises. Then he proceeds to fire all the white men at the table and replaces them with soul brothers. "Rockin' the boat is a drag," the bearded man yells. "I'm gonna sink it. From now on, this ad agency is gonna be called the Truth and Soul Agency. That's right...
...commercials. That seems to have been the idea, anyway, but only traces of it have survived Downey's scattershot direction. He spends most of his time on puerile parodies of TV commercials, like one with a comely adolescent hawking pimple solution by crooning "He gave me a soul kiss/Boy, it sure was grand/He gave me a **/Behind the hot dog stand." When he does occasionally manage to work out a good gag, it is all but smothered in unilevel, quadriliteral farce...
...stage at the end, gives the light a different meaning. Light is the core of the Romantic being, whether sexual (Dietrich, whose skin and hair shine) or metaphysical (the fire in the stove). Janning's pursuit of light, though it leads him into humiliation and death greatens his soul. Sternberg's emphasis on light-attraction over darkness' terror, on personal triumph in the middle of degradation, are Romantic themes whose Christian roots are fundamentally opposed to German Expressionism. The world Jannings inhabits in not a set of dark alleys whose monstrous shadows, projections of his own fears, try to destroy...