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They became the linchpin between two of the most important social reform movements in American history: the struggles for black rights and women's rights.--Paula Giddings...
...rest of the cast ranges from competent to excellent: Christina Voros '99 is a standout as the doomed Banquo, combining the dignity of a soldier and officer with a serious, perceptive humanity that makes one mourn her character's death. Emily Bishop '99 holds her own in the linchpin role of Lady Macbeth. While this particular production subordinates Lady Macbeth to Macbeth himself, Bishop does a good job of showing us the ambition and the ruthlessness of her character; her increasingly strained expression in the banquet scene of III.iv is simultaneously funny and painful to behold. And her sleepwalking scene...
...linchpin of the agreement is the effort by the attorneys general and the public-health community--including the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association--to cut smoking among youngsters, which has been on the rise. In fact, if the number of teenage puffers doesn't decline by 50% within seven years, the industry will be subject to additional penalties. "Only the discovery of major vaccines," said Massachusetts' Scott Harshbarger, president of the National Association of Attorneys General, "could rival what this proposal promises to accomplish...
Indeed, mass advertising is the linchpin of milk's re-emergence. The now ubiquitous milk mustache campaign, with such notables as Christie Brinkley, Jennifer Aniston and Lauren Bacall sporting white upper lips and exclaiming, "Milk, what a surprise!" has been running since last January. The National Fluid Milk Processor Board has also joined forces with its California counterpart to license a quirky, award-winning series of TV spots called "Got Milk?" The theme is that people only think about milk when they haven't got it. "For the first time the industry is focusing on milk as a beverage," says...
...heterosexuals married but on keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...