The disappointing results came after the project's main celebrity champion, the soul singer Mica Paris, pulled out of an awareness-raising gig for personal reasons.
DuVernay finds a way to fashion public revelations into daggers that cut at the soul of main characters, pushing them toward growth, discovery, and, occasionally, further destruction.
Outside the main theatre, the lost souls collide on the walkways and stagger from one door to the next.
The other main narrator in "Four Souls," Polly Elizabeth Gheen, a spinster who presides over the Minneapolis household of her wealthy brother-in-law, seems grasping yet is also unexpectedly selfless.
"The main concept of Dark Souls III is the first flame and its successors; the world has been in this cycle of reigniting the flame since the first game, but now it seems to be disappearing, almost dying.
A common theme in supernatural anime, according to Martin, are souls discontent with their former lives, but the concept of Angel Beats! is described as "quite unusual" because it features all the main characters as such souls and gathers them in one place.
Macy's management is leaving the wooden escalators and facade but now gone are the marble clad columns, Art Deco ceiling and cove lights, and magnificent plaster work all of which could have been updated with ready verve in order to house the sequence of famous retail brand boutiques will soon define the formerly grand and soul-filling main floor.
It argues against the prevailing and increasingly boring theory that Keith Richards is the Stones' main claim to authenticity, the soul of the band, the principal force of their sound and songcraft, and that Mick Jagger is a shallow socialite poseur.
The new stuff mingles soul, 'Exile On Main St' voodoo blues and jazzy Continental bistro sounds; at moments it recalls early E-Street band, everyone banging tambourines and hollering, searching for the spirit in the night.
Then there's James Blake, whose disjointed soul warps the main stage, and Marika Hackman's hauntingly bucolic woodland show, before Portishead emerge from the shadows to perform their stark and chilling headline set.
