Word: deliverence
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Grieving is the appropriate mode in this middling Sydney Pollack effort; the leads' backstories are littered with the corpses of loved ones. Keller has just lost his wife in a car crash, Silvia most of her family back home in Africa, under the bloody rule of the man who is...
In the story, the fantasy of the delayed birth becomes aligned with Precious’ determination to deliver a child whose size she sees as “proof of his American-ness.” These stories stretch from reality, but never very far, and only as amplifications of...
It used to be just the little things. Pressing my eight-year-old nose to the cold glass at the ice cream parlor, I would debate the merits of mint chocolate chip versus strawberry as my siblings effortlessly rattled off their orders. When the smiling eyes of the scooper fell...
The notion that an unacknowledged male ideology exists is not a frivolous one. Science and politics might be very different if women were more involved in the fields. Male thinking runs easily to the linear and abstract, and men's search for control does need examination. Beyond Power poses as...
Three days later, as the unrest, powered by what Naud calls "the anger of the voteless," flickered on despite the emergency, another prominent churchman spoke at a mass funeral service in the township of KwaThema, 35 miles east of Johannesburg, to deliver a message to both black and white South...