Word: miriam
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...barriers separate the audience from the stage where Mrs. Alving (Miriam Varon) strives to nullify the memory and inheritance of a horrifying past. Mrs. Alving is a widow with the inappropriate accent of an Eastern European immigrant, but Varon delivers a capable and accomplished performance--which she does in six languages. Mrs. Alving occupies herself with revolutionary books (at least they were in 1890s Norway) which have led her to abandon the constraints of religious superstition and accepted mores...
...resumption of sporting and cultural events. The changes are generally approved by the African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political group. Earlier this year, the A.N.C. gave its blessing to the resumption of certain cultural contacts, paving the way for visits by such black artists as singer Miriam Makeba and trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Since then, South Africa has been invited to field a team at the 1992 Olympics...
...equal emotional weight to the black woman who spurs her toward responsible action. In Montgomery in 1955, blacks are boycotting city buses until they are allowed to sit wherever they please. ! Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) must walk nine miles to her job as maid for the Thompson family. And Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek) must take a painful journey too, from the blinkered bourgeoisie to courageous solidarity with her sisters under the skin...
...were shot dead by a man witnesses identified as a Jewish settler in the West Bank, apparently in revenge. Bracing for further violence, Israel deployed reinforcements to guard roads, intersections and the homes of prominent Palestinian and left-wing Israeli politicians, who also came under Kahane's wrath. Said Miriam Cohen, a Kahane follower from Jerusalem: "The Arabs will pay for this with their lives. I don't care if hundreds...
Chipping away at the cultural canon, feminist artists beginning in the 1970s sought to rewrite art history to include overlooked female talents. Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, Nancy Spero and other U.S. artists and historians, along with colleagues in Europe, began to exhume female artists of the past. They included medieval mystics and such Renaissance artists as Cremona-born Sofonisba Anguissola, who painted at the court of Philip II of Spain, and Artemisia Gentileschi of Rome, a painter's daughter who, like her father, was influenced by Caravaggio's eye-popping naturalism. To feminist admirers, the value of these women...