Word: conformer
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...second half, the book returns to the sleepy Italian village where all this started, Vittorio finds that his past has been replaced--or refuses to conform to his memories. In the company of ancient aunts and local old-wives' tales, answers don't come as easily as in novels. "That's the funny thing about family," a character says. "You spend all your life trying to get away from them, and then they...
...enough as a young feminist leader. Which is it? It seems to me a sad state of affairs when every young woman who writes about culture is judged on whether she is a "good feminist." Women should be judged for the individual voices we are, not for whether we conform to an outdated vision of what a good feminist is. It is a sign that feminism has not died, but rather has succeeded to an amazing extent, that young female critics don't have to be as single-minded or rigid as Gloria Steinem or Germaine Greer. Today...
...Hargrove. "The mid-to-late '60s was the golden age of soul and funk," says D'Angelo. "It wasn't like now, where you have one producer working for a slew of artists, who all sound the same. Artists are no longer self-contained and are more prone to conform. In the '60s, people were defying what people expected. That's what's missing...
...those who knew Richardson at the time, his stance was not surprising. "I don't think I ever thought that he would [not resign]," Cox says. "The president had a right to have an attorney general who would conform to his instructions; the straight, honest, responsible thing to do was to resign...
...particularly biting moment, Shirley Temple is parodied as 'da Beat (Derick K. Grant) makes a large stretchable doll dance with Uncle Huck-A-Buck (Dominique Kelley) as she asks him questions like, "Why do I get paid more than you?" Eventually, he loses "the beat," and has to conform to what everyone wants him to be. But hope is still in sight, in the form of Grant showing off his breathtakingly intricate steps in "Green, Chaney, Buster, Slyde," a tribute to the masters...