Word: kinship
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...irony, as "a group that just wants to make a joyful noise." She tears up recalling her own high school choir experience. She bursts into song. Five times. And though she says Sue Sylvester "doesn't live too far from the surface," the Glee character she feels the most kinship with is Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), a wallflower who fakes a stutter to mask her shyness and generally confines herself to the chorus. "She's kind of in the background ... but then she steps up to sing and you go, 'Oh, my God, what a voice,'" says Lynch...
...kinship to Polanski's oeuvre is clear enough. The Ghost could be a blending of the director's 1976 The Tenant, in which he starred as a man who rents an apartment where the previous tenant committed suicide and soon believes the neighbors are scheming to force him to kill himself, and the 1999 The Ninth Gate, in which a book dealer sleuths through a antique volume that might be the Devil's autobiography. Need more? Lang, who becomes the focus of a war-crimes investigation in Europe, may be condemned by his past to remain in the U.S. - even...
...from biology, archaeology and anthropology. Humans may be innately selfish, he argues, but early hunter-gatherers needed to subordinate self-interest to the will of the group in order to survive, and "the solution that evolved was religious behavior"--humankind's best organizing principle. Ritual chants and dances fostered kinship and inspired tribes to battle outside threats. As language developed, people ascribed their good fortune to the supernatural, and efforts to please a deity later kept order in nascent civil societies. As our ancestors learned to read, they wrote sacred texts; as they created social hierarchies, they introduced priests. Religious...
...chairman of the African Union at the moment. You referred to President Obama in your speech yesterday as the "son of Africa." Do you feel a kinship with President Obama? And what would you like the United States to do in Africa? Indeed this kinship is there, is existing...
...Korean Kinship The world is not black and white, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton has proved it by meeting with Kim Jong Il and obtaining the release of the two journalists [Aug. 17]. It would be naive to believe that a former American President and the Secretary of State's husband acted without the U.S. government's knowledge or quiet endorsement. The more isolated North Korea becomes, the more threatening it grows, and the U.S. Administration seems to comprehend this situation. We hope that this visit may lead to a new round of peace talks. This unannounced visit...