Word: kinships
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...part of a new crop of young African-American politicians--like Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Illinois Senator Barack Obama--who attended élite colleges. Do you feel any kinship with them...
...black American, in this view, one's ancestors must have been not simply slaves but American slaves. Furthermore, directly mirroring the traditional definition of whiteness as not being black is the growing tendency to define blackness in negative terms--it is to be not white in upbringing, kinship or manner, to be too not at ease in the intimate ways of white Americans...
...killed and resurrected himself as the do-gooder Spirit. With Superman and Batman and their caped cronies running altruistically amok through urban mean streets, Eisner was encouraged to make his protagonist a bit more like them; only reluctantly did he slap a mask on the Spirit to establish his kinship to the superheroes. New York (Metropolis, Gotham) was here called Central City, though later the Spirit traveled abroad. Sometimes he nearly disappeared from his own strip, making only a perfunctory appearance in the lives of supporting characters or guest villains. In that sense, The Spirit was a proletarian comic strip...
...Which grants it a certain kinship with Catch and Release, a romantic non-comedy - it's really more in the mode of an old-fashioned "women's picture" - in which a woman named Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) finds her wedding day turning into a funeral for her fiance, suddenly lost in an accident. For reasons best known to her, she continues to hang around his bachelor bungalow in Boulder, Colorado, mourning his passing with two former roommate (Kevin Smith and Sam Jaeger) and a visiting pal named Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), who turns out to be much nicer than he first...
...characters of “Prodigal Summer†cannot escape the fact that, in some indefinable way, humans are not the same as other species. Kingsolver reveals that important things reside in the gap between what is human and what is wild: love, kinship, pride. Throughout the novel, each character confronts this gap, some with more success than others...