Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Singers performed music from many different genres, including rap, hip-hop, soul and R&B, while musicians played solos on piano, guitar and saxophone...
...prose lucid, the book stretches thin as he tries to extrapolate too many generalizations about rowing and life from his personal experience. The book begins to read like a catalogue of cliches, as Lambert winds up each vignette with trite observations that ring faintly of Chicken Soup for the Soul: "To find our calling, we must listen to all of these inner voices, which speak from, and to, the soul," and "strong teams balance variety with unity around a clear sense of purpose," are some of the reflections and advice he offers. Such messages as these, certainly obvious, border...
Mind Over Water sails into the genre offeel-good motivational books that are so popularas of late. There is nothing wrong with a little"chicken soup" for the rower's soul, or forLambert's soul, as the case may be, but the book'slessons are decidedly limited. The mysteries ofrowing could perhaps be just as effectivelyuncovered by asking a rower returning from amorning's practice, "so what are you doing up soearly...
...joys of Chucky are pure and simple. There's this doll, see, and he's possessed by the soul of a serial killer and so he kills a lot of people in improbable ways. The sheer inanity of this premise ensures entry into B-movie heaven, but as this is the fourth of the Child's Play movies (it's been 10 years since the first) something new is added: Chucky's ex-girlfriend is turned into an equally evil and equally plastic doll. So there are all your standard horror movie tropes--"chilling" music, ridiculous quick cuts...
...guitar was now in better tune than before he passed it to them. Continuing with the college theme, Linnell then introduced the next song as a "song in the same key [as the last one] for all you Berklee students." A spirited version of the classic "Birdhouse In Your Soul" followed, to the delight of the crowd...