Word: sisterhoods
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...crud that collects around the faucets, that I rarely talk on the phone without a bottle of Windex and paper towel in hand as I walk around wiping off fingerprints. Housework is the third rail of feminism. Do too much of it, and you are out of the sisterhood. Talk about it, and you will find yourself discounted at work and shunned at parties...
...racially diverse, all-female cast did more than act together, she says. They bonded and formed a sisterhood, of sorts, a rare event in campus theater made even more so because of the cast’s unusually diverse composition, she says...
Seger is part of a new sisterhood of soul. In recent months, a wave of promising R.-and-B. divas has hit the radio and video airwaves, including big-voiced newcomer Alicia Keys (Songs in A Minor), neo-soul singer Res (How I Do) and soul-rock crooner Nikka Costa (Like a Feather, the single from her recently released album Everybody Got Their Something, is one of the year's catchiest songs). All these young soul crooners make music that's tinged with rap rhythms: the hip-hop gives their work an edge, while the soul makes...
...Jacob Cheung's Midnight Fly, two tourists?Michelle (the ever-fabulous Anita Mui) from Hong Kong and Miki (Junna Risa) from Japan?meet in France, then go on to Morocco, with dire results. For this English-language tale of sisterhood under stress, Cheung, whose 1989 Beyond the Sunset and 1992 Cageman won best picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards, has the gloss of sumptuous photography and lovely work by the two leads. But narrative implausibilities assure that Midnight Fly ... doesn't. Really, what are the odds that one woman's husband will be the other's lover...
...like they'd just ducked out of a board meeting for an hour, and sweatshirt-clad women with babies strapped to their chests. There were women who'd brought sheepish-looking boyfriends and women who'd arrived with their mothers. It was, I decided, a pretty impressive display of sisterhood. And everybody there was waiting, unashamed, to meet and applaud Bridget Jones's creator...