Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death, it seemed that the East Coast-West Coast beef might be squashed. When Quincy Jones addressed Prof. Dwight Andrews' class on black music several weeks ago, he claimed that Tupac's death was forcing a critical reexamination of gangsta posturing in rap music. Reports from the recent Soul Train Music Awards claimed that a new harmony had reigned. The next night, a drive-by shooting ended Biggie's life...
...American tour; Shine has received seven Oscar nominations; chaotic though it is, Helfgott's recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto (the "Rach 3" of the movie) is a hot seller, and Love You to Bits and Pieces, Gillian's fuzzy-warm book about how she rescued this lost soul and lofted him to stardom, has 185,000 copies in print. "It's almost as if we've gone into orbit," says Gillian. It would seem that the only thing lacking is a Disney tie-in for a Helfgott doll...
Lori and I discussed how we would transmute all our self-knowledge into our clones so completely that when we died we would technically still be alive--our "death" merely being a technical bookkeeping notation. Imagine feeling as if you are sharing a soul with five others! Lori was indeed a special woman to me. She was the only one I'd met who could connect with me on my own level. We were fated for each other...
JAMES BROWN knows how to make a pitch. But the godfather of soul strained to hit the right note when he phoned during a taping of the Rolonda talk show. "Darling," he told host ROLONDA WATTS, "you know I'm crazy about you. So how about tying the knot?" The stunned Watts, not accustomed to airing her own confrontations on camera, told Brown she'd talk to him later. Watts, 37, became buddies with the widowed singer, 68, after he appeared on her show in January, and before long he was sporting a Rolonda jacket. But all that good feeling...
Smilla's Sense of Snow is more than a climatological instinct. It is the projection of a wintry soul over which a long, cold arctic night settled long...