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...novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told one interviewer. "I feel they are like hidden royalty dwelling among...
...that through his film, he hopes to provide the next generation with accurate information about that period in history. “The cruelties I experienced and heard remain in my memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother’s shooting, using his own chest to trace the path the bullet took. Merle Goldman, a professor emerita at Boston University and a research associate...
...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...first South African white woman convicted as a traitor
...Narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when her opponents mistakenly planted a bomb under a car belonging to another woman...