Word: soulfulness
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...gold and silver medals in short-track speed skating, propelling the popularity of the hypnotically dangerous sport, in which athletes whirl around a 111-m oval with no lane markers while wearing 10-in. razor blades on their feet. Off the ice his wisp of a soul patch and X Games 'tude helped him dominate the event known as Olympic buzz. He was so popular in Salt Lake City that even female fans wore fake Ohno patches; afterward he was named one of PEOPLE'S 50 Most Beautiful. The only thing that could have made his experience better was more...
...brief vacation from the rock band Rilo Kiley, Lewis takes exuberant steps in lots of musical directions. From the gospel rhythm and secular doubt of The Big Guns ("I've won hundreds at the track but I'm not betting on the afterlife") to the blue-eyed soul of You Are What You Love, each song has a sense of narrative motion, largely because Lewis knows which moments call for delicacy and which demand emotive belting. She can also interpret others' songs, as proved when she nips Handle with Care from the mouths of the Traveling Wilburys and turns...
...like the one at Harvard particularly important to her. “In Europe I [am] used to seeing ‘grey hair’ in the audience and this is really sad,†she writes. “Music gives so much to the young soul.â€She also expresses hope for the cultural future of Russian youth. “In Moscow, I see more and more young people interested in classical music,†she writes.Recently, Gutman has taken a particular interest in promoting and supporting young musicians. She has developed...
...blessed Bono with a beautiful voice and a beautiful soul. He is not another misinformed celebrity with a cause. He has done his homework, made friends on both sides of the partisan divide in Washington and worked to bring hope to those in despair. I would ask anyone who dismisses him as a pompous rock star, What have you done to help those plagued by poverty and disease...
...civilization." While other artists, including the German painter Walter Spies and the Dutchman Rudolf Bonnet, were busily creating the myth of the Island of the Gods, concentrating on the exotic beauty of its bare-breasted maidens and graceful adolescent boys, Covarrubias delved deeper, following his anthropological research into the soul of Bali...