Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great women. One, anyway: Jane Craig, daredevil news producer. Jane (Holly Hunter) is so focused that even her sobbing fits are controlled; she performs them each morning like aerobics. She is properly repelled by Tom, and improperly attracted to him. Improperly, because she has a perfect pal -- not a soul mate exactly, but a brain mate -- in Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), a warm, supercompetent, underappreciated reporter, the Jimmy Olsen of Mensa. Aaron can spit out pertinent facts about Gaddafi, he can get drunk and sing along in flawless French to a Francis Cabrel tune, he can love Jane to pristine...
...HRDC's "strategy". Elite, favor, elect: these words run through McGanney's article. Yet how does she know who is in my "favor"? Has she, over our lunch meetings, looked deep into my soul and seen to its finest detail the bias I wield over my intellect? Does she know which directors have worked during my tenure, and my relationship with them? She uses fighting words, and she had best have strong proof to back them...
...death came for the Archbishop cuts deep into the soul of El Salvador. At 6 p.m. on March 24, 1980, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and an outspoken critic of the military terrorism that was ravaging the country, was celebrating Mass in the small, humid chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. As he delivered his sermon, a gunshot shattered the calm of the ceremony. The Archbishop toppled to the floor, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Blood stained the white altar cloth. Bending down to give the gray-haired prelate a final kiss...
...reading a passage in St. Matthew and thereafter taught the unreality of all physical ills. Spiritualism was the rage of the 1850s, and a heroine of Henry James' The Bostonians went into mesmeric trances to gather recruits for the cause of feminism. Walt Whitman believed in transmigration of the soul -- "And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,/ (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)" -- and so did the practical-minded Thomas Alva Edison...
...could they not? By this point in a campaign, a candidate has answered more & repetitive questions than a Soviet defector undergoing a CIA debriefing. Spontaneity is in such short supply that the press treats an original response as if it were the skeleton key to the candidate's soul. Such scrutiny is the enemy of candor, since contenders face no short-term dangers by telling the truth as blandly as possible...