Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor, dear, dead Martha Mitchell [Sept. 12] is to blame for Watergate. I didn't think it possible for Richard Nixon to sink lower, but he surely has hit rock bottom this time. God indeed rest and refresh the soul of this valiant and martyred lady...
...Woman-About-England Lady Antonia Fraser has focused on the topic dearest to her heart: love. The former wife of Conservative M.P. Hugh Fraser-and the current companion of Playwright Harold Pinter-says she loves nothing more than to give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish...
...Bern. There David's gift for mimicry and his cassette-recorder ear made him a quick study of foreign tongues. Within a year he had delved into German letters and discovered new modes of expression and thought. "You might say," he claims, "that I rather belatedly developed a second soul...
...style and tongue-and-groove plotting, The Honourable Schoolboy sometimes displays a Balzacian tendency to turn urges into passions, to exaggerate expression into melodrama. Moreover, facts, facts, facts are better left to the journalist-reprobates. Le Carré's long suit is not, after all, reportage, but a "second soul" that amplifies the century's dilemmas...
...revives one's fondest memories of her talent. This somber Italian film-yet another meditation on the Mussolini era-gives Loren her richest part in years, and she responds in kind. Not only is she as beautiful as ever at 43, but her beauty seems inseparable from the soul of her performance. When Loren addresses the camera with this much intensity, no audience in its right mind would dare turn away...