Word: woman
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...tenderhearted Sunshine Cleaning begins with a woman named Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) reading a list of affirmations from Post-it notes. "You are strong," she tells her reflection. "You are powerful." The audience promptly takes it under advisement that Rose is neither strong nor powerful, and she proves it a few minutes later by romping around a hotel room with her lover (Steve Zahn), a man who is obviously married and planning on staying that...
...needs to go to private school), Rose gets into the more lucrative end of the cleaning business: tidying up suicides and sponging up blood and guts at crime scenes, a plot apparently inspired by an NPR story. She takes as her partner her sister Norah (Emily Blunt), a young woman who has so consistently screwed up that she's practically paralyzed...
...self-conscious quirkiness of a career cleaning up corpses could present a trap, but Jeffs (best known for the Plath biopic Sylvia) does her best to steer around it. Rose and Norah have one nose-holding, cringing, slapstick-filled scene in a dead woman's house, but a sense of respect for the departed pervades the movie. "Do you think they loved each other?" Norah asks, surveying the bathroom where a murder-suicide took place. "Yes," Rose says with certainty. The more we learn about Rose and Norah's childhood - their mother died in what Norah dryly terms...
...were referred to the Dean of Coeducation, Karen Avery, whose job was to ensure that “women’s stuff” didn’t interfere with more important work. The higher-up deans and officials were all men. For us, the idea of a woman president of the university was as inconceivable as the thought of a black man in the Oval Office...
...There was an active feminist community, but it was relegated to Radcliffe. Everything changed with the final Harvard-Radcliffe merger in 1999, when Radcliffe ceased to exist as an undergraduate college, and Drew Faust became the first dean of the new Radcliffe Institute. Most of the woman-specific funding and programs disappeared or shifted to Harvard, and their future was shrouded in mystery. It seemed as though it would be hard to make Harvard treat us as well as Radcliffe had. We were afraid that Harvard would assume titular responsibility for us as full and equal students but would...