Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...100m breaststroke after teammate Jessica Hardy was pulled off for a doping violation, collected an unexpected silver. "It's great to see others getting involved, especially when everyone is so competitive," says Mark Schubert, head national team coach. Even if Phelps isn't willing to bear his soul, at least he seems willing to share in his speed...
Even though he is now Prime Minister to his handpicked successor as President, Dmitri Medvedev, history will show Albright's answer was the correct one. The man into whose soul George W. Bush famously peered is going to run Russia until he drops. The only question in the intervening years was, What kind of Russia will that be? And though that's been, in the eyes of many, increasingly obvious, we now have the definitive answer: authoritarian at home, brooking no consequential political opposition, and increasingly aggressive abroad. The Russian war against the small, Caucasus state of Georgia had been...
...Porter helped define that studio's sound, which dispensed with the pop craftsmanship of Stax's main rival Motown Records and, taking inspiration from James Brown's mid-'60s ravers, revved up the motor of testosterone. For Sam & Dave they wrote the hits Hold On, I'm Coming and Soul Man. Both tunes are declarations of sexual prowess ready to explode. Get with the program, they said, or get out of the way. When first released, the songs were No. 1 R&B winners (Soul Man hit No. 2 on the pop charts), and they never did lose their power...
...Hayes' imposing frame, and a stare that managed to intimidate and seduce, made the songwriter a natural for performing. Oddly, his first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold...
...Hayes had one more career in him: as Chef, the grade-school cook who dished out mediocre food and ageless wisdom on the Comedy Central animated show South Park. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, conceived the role for Barry White, another soul basso whose music soothed where Hayes' prowled and pounced. But Hayes did splendid work (his lines usually taped by phone from New York) for the first nine seasons, in which Chef was virtually the only adult character treated with affectionate respect. Parker and Stone also gave Hayes his last hit single: a ribald novelty...