Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the most disciplined can resist the urge for better equipment, new hybrids, the latest indestructible orchid. Tools that were once an extension of arm and soul are now computer driven and high tech. Smith & Hawken, purveyor of top-drawer English garden tools, has grown from two guys selling ! tools nine years ago out of a California warehouse to a $30 million business...
Depth, of course, can get in the way of a clear-cut good time, and part of what makes this young rock so successful is the shared avoidance of soul, a substitution of fantasy for flesh. The best song on the Dirty Dancing records is a piece of elaborate contemporary pop, Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes, that recaptures the high, wide feeling of '60s music without trying to mimic it. It was hard anyway, even growing up with rock 'n' roll, to define what it was. All anyone ever really knew was that rock was the real thing...
Reagan also touched on the soul of his nation. "Political leadership in a democracy requires seeing past the abstractions and embracing the vast diversity of humanity, and doing it with humility; listening as best you can, not just to those with high positions, but to the cacophonous voices of ordinary people, and trusting those millions of people, keeping out of their way . . . And the word we have for this is 'freedom...
...Palace, the glass-and-iron housing for the famed Exhibition of 1851, about new directions her factory should take. Oscar, meanwhile, successfully out of Oxford and teaching school, has begun to feel that his method of raising money, while not in itself sinful, has inspired unholy passions in his soul. He longs, in short, to bet on everything. So, on the toss of a coin, he decides that he has been chosen to "bring the word of Christ to New South Wales." He and Lucinda take the same ship out to Sydney...
Centering the first unit last year and the second unit this season, the 5-ft. 3-in. Neilson has exemplified heart, soul, and above all, guts...