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...eyebrows elevate when she smiles; she speaks slowly and almost reluctantly. After nearly two decades of these mannerisms, she could be accused of simply mimicking herself role after role, but this is never the case. Rather, Zellweger doesn’t need any radical physical transformation to inhabit her roles. British director Richard Loncraine—who previously directed film adaptations of Shakespeare and a made for TV movie about Winston Churchill—allows Zellweger to flourish in a quieter, more formal movie than she is accustomed to. His prior academic studies of sculpture seem influential in his directorial...
...impossibility. No one was more surprised than the bespectacled widow who admitted that she didn't even like politics and might just as easily have ended up spending her days pruning her beloved bonsai. Nevertheless, in 1986 Aquino made People Power - and People Power made the world we now inhabit a freer place. "When we were struggling with apartheid," recalls retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the moral force of South Africa's political change, "we spoke of People Power. You had to be with the people to make change happen." At the dawn of a new century, his words may feel...
...answer all questions politely and keep our hands where they can be seen. But for blacks who've made it to the upper echelons of American society, those old lessons chafe, and you tire of wearing the mask of deference. Moreover, members of the black upper class tend to inhabit places where they stick out. They work with colleagues who, if only for statistical reasons, don't have to worry about being confused with a suspect. They live in neighborhoods where they might be the only people of color on the block. This sense of insecurity, of not quite being...
...will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars. It is the thin bleeding line within the thin blue line, the anthroposphere within the biosphere, the part of the material world in which we live out our lives. It is ourselves...
...fall of 1959, 230 hand-selected Harvard men moved into Quincy House as the original occupants of the College’s first contemporary residence. Breaking with the architectural tradition of the initial seven Houses, Quincy’s concrete, high-rise exterior and novelty imbued its initial inhabitants with the freedom to build an interior House character from the ground up. As one of Quincy’s original 150 sophomores, Robert J. Gordon ’62 recalls the sense of pomp and privilege surrounding the newly-constructed eighth House. “In Quincy, we were proud...