Word: sisterhoods
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...First Class Marshal stresses that she has had no trouble fitting in at Harvard and at Radcliffe. "Being a Black female, I have another connection, the sisterhood of Radcliffe," she says. "The fact that this is our common denominator, I feel a sense of camaraderie...
...well- researched background -- from the rubber plantations of World War II Malaya, where James went in as a boy and came out a man, to the Sassoon haircuts of 1965 London and the cocaine of today -- to solve the mysteries of James' sad end and the girls' birth. Sisterhood is powerful in this passionate page turner, whose primary lesson is an angry one: don't cast your pearls before men, the swine...
...Radcliffe affiliates say that the sense of community at Radcliffe today is difficult to define, and many go so far as to say it no longer exists. With male students living in the Radcliffe Quadrangle and women on campus referring to themselves as "Harvard students," the days of the sisterhood between Radcliffe women seem to have dissappeared...
Therese (played with fierce clarity by Catherine Mouchet) was one of four Martin sisters in the convent at Lisieux. The film portrays it as a true community, a beautiful sisterhood. For novices like Therese, every act of abasement is another wondrous rite of initiation into a high-spirited sorority of love and sacrifice. For the older nuns, the convent is not a ^ prison but an enchanted castle that surrounds them with images of their beloved. All the sisters find beauty in duty, fulfillment in filth. One nun, ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin...
...Sisterhood of Streetwalkers should sue every play or screenwriter who utilizes the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold; Hauptman uses two of them, played by Diane D'Aquila and Gayle Keller. D'Aquila brings more cynical bite to her roll than called for, and gets saddled with the metaphoric burden of being not just a prostitute, but an American Indian prostitute...