Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fudge it. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, a hero of the civil rights movement, is heartsick over the prospect that the Supreme Court might end the forcible imposition of integration in the society. But Lewis is a sunny soul, and he told me, "Society has come so far, and we're certainly not going backward." Even if racial preferences are ruled unconstitutional, "people are going to find a way to do it anyway." The Congressman is quite right. Diversity has been written into the dna of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished...
Gregory Summers' last request sounded like the far-flung pinings of a romantic poet. Just before he died, the 48-year-old told friends he wanted Tuscany to be his final resting place. Summers' burial plea, though, was not that of a sentimental soul, but of a Texan triple-murder convict on death row. And Tuscany held no special place in his heart...
Spanning the '60s and '70s, Dreamgirls is about the pop-cultural battle of glamour vs. soul: of Deena (Beyoncé Knowles), the pretty singer, vs. Effie (Jennifer Hudson), a vocal volcano but a bit plump. Curtis (Jamie Foxx), their manager, banking on Deena's smooth sound and looks to peddle the Dreams to white audiences, will do anything to make the sale. The piece plumbs the lure of compromise, the risk of diluted dreams and broken hearts...
...anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey, we explored how the Pontiff's remarks on Islam have made him a lightning rod in conflicts worldwide pitting that faith against the West. Prayers for peace, suggested readers, would be answered only through some soul searching by members of all faiths...
...care to accept all this as a well-made adventure story, feel free to do so. But taken in Gibsonian context, it is clear that something more than sadism stirs the director's soul. For one thing, he wants us to see that late Maya civilization is analogous in his view to our own. It is given to worshipping false idols and values and, for all its military might, is rotting from within. Even the simple village, before it is destroyed, revels in irrelevant pleasure. What everyone needs is, well, a savior. And that's where Jaguar Paw comes...