Word: soullessness
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With a touching air of realism, the play focuses on a town so plagued by drought that a soulless corporation, Urine Good Company (UGC), has created and monopolized a market for all public toilets. The town’s penny-scrounging denizens are furious about this fee-to-pee policy, but don’t do much more than cross their legs and hold. At last, a revolution blooms when an old man is apprehended for publicly relieving himself and banished to Urinetown, a restroom that evokes Orwell’s Room 101. The remainder of the play indiscriminately parodies...
...your daily life by changing your own relationship to food—and it can become addictive itself. Prompted by the release of “Ratatouille,” I attempted to expand my interest from books to movies. Unfortunately, American cinema de cuisine tends to be as soulless as mainstream American cooking. Witness this summer’s “No Reservations,” a painfully vapid remake of the sublime, German “Mostly Martha.” Then, in mid-July, I discovered the Schlesinger Library, one of the undiscovered jewels of Harvard...
...artist Ding Yi, whose Mondrian-inspired geometries hardly betray his nationality. "It's very seductive," acknowledges Li Liang, the owner of Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai. "You know that if you put things up that look Chinese, they will sell well." But others worry that this impulse will only encourage soulless facsimiles with little cultural resonance. Yue Minjun's laughing heads, for instance, have spawned dozens of smiling faces by lesser artists. "We've reached the point where artists have to be honest with themselves," says Weng Ling, director of the Shanghai Gallery of Art. "Are you doing...
...said one chap in a fedora to another.“I worked at a record company and I did some art. It was sick. What did you do, man?”“I did banking, man. But man, that shit is soulless.”“I know, man,” his conversation partner replied.This process seemed to go on for hours and hours. Identical looking people would come up to me, swill cheap wine and smoke in my face. Then they would talk about how soulless investment banking...
...young atheist who was brought upin a Catholic household, I was appalled to see that being atheist was the worst possible position for a presidential candidate. Atheists are not soulless people without morals. One does not need to have faith in order to know right from wrong--it's called common humanity. It seems the only reason our nation looks for faith within ourselves and in our leaders is that we unfortunately have faith in neither...