Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proponents of the expanded ties cite the success of Cambridge's five current sister city relations in heightening awareness of other cultures, saying that the ties need to be broadened to include societies which are currently excluded from the program...
...These are excellent programs for bringing unity around the world on a totally different level that we haven't had in the past," said Joan Qualls-Harris, one of the organizers of a committee to identify a potential sister city in Africa...
...effort to extend Cambridge's sister city program to new parts of the world, several city residents are lobbying for the establishment of ties with cities in Africa and the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...city activist Lester P. Lee, Jr., who is heading his own campaign for an African sister city, said that his first choice is Akwa, Nigeria. Lee said that he favors establishing a city in the Akwa region because many Black Americans have historical roots in the area...
Rowlandson's energy is infectious. It fairly seethes in images like A Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, where two of the wild aristocratic beauties of the day -- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her sister Lady Bessborough -- preside like maenads over the eddy of faces, dicing table and money, and a lecherous buck offers a woman a purse which, none too subtly, is shaped like a pair of testicles...