Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This premillennial Woodstock got started 12 years ago when an unknown artist, Larry Harvey, built a wooden statue on a foggy beach near San Francisco and then set it on fire. For Harvey it was a catharsis to heal a broken relationship. For his friends it was a soul-energizing blast, and Harvey decided it should be an annual ritual. He cast a single brilliant rule: no spectators. What he wanted, he said, was to create "a Disneyland in reverse." Everyone had to be a participant and march in the electric-light parade...
...future when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect O'Neil to fail and prove their patronizing assumptions about gals in combat. There even comes a moment when the Senator, faced with base closings in her state, is willing to trade principles for political survival...
...cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks, and the mouth of a randier Damon Runyon...
Looks like the Queen of Soul wants more respect for her piano playing. Aretha Franklin has been accepted at the Juilliard School's division of adult studies to study classical piano. Details are not final, but Juilliard has offered to customize a program for her, since she hardly keeps the hours of its regular adult students--mostly doctors, accountants and lawyers. She's not the first celeb musician to seek higher learning there: John Tesh was also a student...
Chad, a nice-looking fellow with the soul of Satan, sits next to Christine, the deaf secretary he has bogusly courted for the sole pleasure of dumping her. As she registers the enormity of his betrayal, Chad stares at her and says, "So how does it feel?" This moment in Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men packs such a sick smack that at a showing at the Samuel Goldwyn Pavilion in West Los Angeles last week, a woman gasped and shook her head in disgust; another, supplying a retort for Christine, said, "I feel like cutting your cojones...