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...more tea as the women exchange juicy gossip and confession in a process best described by the grandmother. "Speaking behind other's backs ventilates the heart." Briefly liberated from the constraints of their male-dominated culture the women speak freely and frankly of love, sex and relationships in the context of a defiantly traditional culture lurching into the 21st century...
...transcript indicating into which quintile or quartile the student’s grade fell relative to all the grades given in the course,” he wrote in an e-mail. “That would instantly put the meaning of (say) a Harvard A- in context...
...only time I ever heard Prof. Weitzman talk about horse manure before was in the context of New York City drowning in it at the turn of the last century,” the student said. “People didn’t know how to get rid of that stuff back then...
...Amour is not about Hiroshima at all, only using the occasion as a locus for showing how people learn to deal with a tragic past--in the case of the woman in the story, a past that has nothing to do with Hiroshima. Yet choosing Hiroshima as the context, the witness box, for the woman's revelation is a way of saying: here is the place one either remembers or forgets, and the consequence of forgetting is Hiroshima...
...Indians. Earlier this year, as part of its effort to remove some of the rough edges of apartheid, the government decided that mixed marriages and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites would no longer be forbidden. But these reforms, important as they may be in the context of South Africa, meant little to blacks and did not affect what apartheid is really all about: the preservation of white political power. Botha conceded that ways would have to be found to allow blacks to live legally and permanently in the townships they have long inhabited. But he also reaffirmed his commitment...