Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve up the urban scene at its most urbane. Clean taxis and great apartments appear in a trice, and no one's upscale job deprives him of quality time for soul scratching. But in both films the surface prettiness is just a device; it clears the cityscape of its daily detritus to focus on what matters: love, sex and friendship...
...with the text and texture of Olivier's life and career. He was the son of a fifth-generation Anglican clergyman, yet he found his soul upon the wicked stage. The foremost classical actor of his time, he attained his first eminence as a West End matinee idol, and his second as a Hollywood dreamboat in Wuthering Heights (1939) and Rebecca (1940). Though he pored over scripts like a new critical scholar, he was an irrepressibly physical stage performer, scaling balconies and executing dizzying falls with Fairbanksian elan. Like many men, Olivier housed a congeries of contradictions; uniquely, he transformed...
...quickly denied any such thing, but the damage was done. Details of his late-night soul-searching were too vivid to be fabricated or to be quickly forgotten. The Nikkei stock average suffered a 517-point drop in one afternoon, falling to 32,951 before partly recovering. "The market thinks Uno is finished," said a Tokyo stockbroker, "and that means more political trouble ahead...
Conversation, Toad thought, was best when walking, since talk itself is an ambling. Toad even talked better to himself when walking -- though if he moved his lips when doing it, he looked like a street crazy. It was at last in the walking that Toad's soul, he found, was most at rest...
...though, are the ways of fate and fame. The movie shows Lewis' bravado being directed at his cousin, revivalist Jimmy Swaggart, who is portrayed at more or less regular intervals denouncing rock 'n' roll as the "devil's music" and praying for the redemption of Jerry Lee's blighted soul. But the real-life Swaggart has since been brought low by the revelation of particularly tacky sexual practices. Lewis' music, manner and morality now seem almost innocent in comparison with what has followed him up the charts and into the hearts of adolescents during the past three decades. Even...