Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soul might say, three was the magicnumber...
...when they arrived in Congress as the smartest boys in a class in which all the members considered themselves most likely to succeed. Now, in challenging Gore for the 2000 nomination, Gephardt was prepared to wage nothing less than a struggle for their party's soul. All of which might have given the two plenty to talk about at dinner, except they didn't talk about any of it. Gore never brought up the Harvard speech, and no one mentioned the White House intern. The evening, Gephardt later remarked privately, "could not have been more surreal...
...asks you three times or the one who never calls?" asks Jeff Woodburn, Democratic chairman in New Hampshire, a state where 75% of party officials are expected to commit to the hyperattentive Gore. Bradley says his long silence was not so much about snubs as about soul-searching. And his staff believes his ruminations will help him find ways to inspire voters--people who don't belong to the party machine, regular people who can see past the thrumming economy, who aren't feeling rosy. It's an unusual, even heretical tactic...
...brand trying too hard to be core, such as Mountain Dew or Nike, is by definition not core. "You can't buy your way in," says Don Brown, 32, vice president of Soul Technology, a growing skateboard-shoe company with $40 million in annual sales. "Look at Nike. They're the best marketing machine in America, and they couldn't buy their way into skateboarding." Ironic that in the pre-nose-ring generation, Nike invented core. Coreness can reach ridiculous extremes. Almost every Velcro Valley firm has erected a half-pipe skateboard ramp on its premises. "We used to have...
...asteroid heading for Earth or a battle on Omaha Beach. It is the agony and suspense in an intimate conversation. Do you love me? Have you betrayed me? Will you leave me? The answers to those questions make the heart soar or sink; they leave lasting marks on the soul, like a trophy or a gravestone. Years later, we look back and think: from that moment, everything was different. Yet movies rarely touch on this form of domestic convulsion. They offer escapism--not just from daily drudgery but from our most exalted apprehensions...