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...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...
Fortunately for Richards, bidding to become the first woman Governor of Texas since Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson ruled the state from 1925 to 1927, Republican nominee Williams suffered a self-inflicted wound that could cripple him. He joked that bad weather was inevitable, like rape, and the only thing to do was to "relax and enjoy it." He said later he was kidding, an apology that may work with the so-called Bubba vote. Women may not be so forgiving, particularly those who were already leaning toward Richards as the pro-choice candidate...
Miramax (named for the Weinsteins' parents, Miriam and Max) was born ten years ago when the brothers bought a decrepit movie house in Buffalo, renovated it and started showing films that drew a college crowd. With the profits, they began buying and distributing movies. Their first was The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, a rock music-comedy hybrid purchased in 1982 for $180,000 that earned $6 million...