Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the speeches, a line formed at the single microphone in the center aisle as audience members asked whether the speakers' arguments for the existence of God can be used as arguments for the existence of UFOs, and where Jesus got his y-chromosome if his mother was a virgin...
...responding to it. "There's a moment," she says, "when you see Sethe's mother in the hanging scene. You see her eyes. To see that come alive was breathtaking." She was finally pleased and surprised by the achievement. "They did something I thought they never could: to make the film represent not the abstraction of slavery but the individuals, the domestic qualities and consequences...
...Winfrey, it was a big gamble that deserves a solid payoff. As Demme says, "She is, indeed, the mother of the movie." The film has many gifted midwives. But it was Winfrey who gave birth to a strong, stately film; to the chance for a renewed awareness of how slavery's shackles still chafe. She has also given birth to herself--as a force in a Hollywood that needs a more mature future, and in an America that needs to remember its past...
...Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel. He showed early talent as a debater and an advocate--at age six he persuaded his mother to simplify the spelling of his name from Thoroughgood--but even more as a class clown and budding playboy. Indeed, it was not until he arrived at Howard University School of Law in 1930 and fell under the spell of its tough-minded dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, that the contours of Marshall's mission began to form...
Jean-Michel faults the woman he calls his "out-of-step-mother" for lending the Cousteau name to a catalog selling organic coffee and shampoo--"my father must be flip-flopping in his grave"--and slashing staff in the face of falling revenues. Worse, says Jean-Michel, is building the costly Calypso II instead of smaller, more mobile vessels. "Calypso II is a joke," he fumes...