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Although she acknowledged that women inevitably differ from one another, Eleanor Roosevelt was certain that for most females, there is a special concern for the well being of their children. “There are certain fundamental things that mean more to the great majority of women than to the great majority of men. These things are undoubtedly tied up with women’s biological functions. The women bear the children, and love them before they even come into the world.” In this modern era, we cannot lose sight of Roosevelt’s wisdom. After...
...even go so far as to record backmasked vocals on a handful of songs, recalling the urban myths about demonic subliminal messages in heavy metal music. Unlike some of their influences, The Furnaces have a great sense of humor. On “Oh Sweet Woods,” Eleanor Friedberger—the band’s vocalist and Matthew’s little sister—sings of being kidnapped by fanatical Mormon missionaries. Eleanor’s deadpan vocal performance heightens the absurdity of the events she recounts, and Matthew’s haunting acoustic guitar provides...
...Delaware River, bigger at birth than the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania cities of York and Lancaster. Its patient medical researchers found drugs that gave promise of conquering TB and polio. Its impatient newspaper readers doused themselves inside & out with another wonder drug, chlorophyll, and followed the Wars of the Roses-Eleanor and Billy...
...test of the downtown emergency evacuation plan after the fireworks found that traffic signals didn't switch to evacuation timing, some federal radios weren't charged and some officials didn't have a clear sense of their responsibilities. Local officials say they fixed the problems afterwards. But as Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's congressional delegate, puts it: "You wonder how many afterwards there are going to have...
Dancing madestars in the '30s: Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Eleanor Powell. As for the toe-tapping extras, the foot soldiers of Hollywood musicals, Busby Berkeley put them to work by the hundreds, using them to create giant geometric shapes that were both military and erotic. From a Rockettes-style line eight or 10 deep, they would evolve into the human pictograph of a piano or a woman's face. This collection assembles the works that made Berkeley famous: 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Dames and the first two Gold Diggers movies. For the pure Busby buzz, skip...