Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bagley felt that the tepid response was at least partly due to a general lack of spirit...
...Wilson personifies the Audubon spirit of environmental activism," Audubon Society president John Flicker told the Harvard Gazette...
...they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might be thought triply vulnerable--high-pitched, solitary, female--emerges as an invincible spirit...
...they were, George and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, in the Abbey Road studios, putting aside rancors that had festered for decades and making music. "Working together, they've found themselves again," says the Beatles' longtime record producer George Martin of the sessions last winter. "There was a great spirit of camaraderie. It's almost as though John was with them too." And he was. Lennon's audible ghost sings lead on Free as a Bird, the--never thought we'd get to say this--new Beatles single...
...innocence of Miranda (Carrie Preston) should warm the spirit; the treachery of Antonio (Nestor Serrano) should chill the veins. Yet emotional extremes--hot and cold--are missing here. Wolfe allows Preston to play Miranda as a panting, boy-mad, '90s adolescent. Reared on an island inhabited only by her father and a pair of spirits, where has she acquired her repertoire of salacious smirks, hotfooted flouncings, pouting moues...