Word: kinship
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...self-taught, and he brings an autodidact's passion to his work. At his spartan studio on the northeastern outskirts of Tokyo, he kneels placidly on the floor, surrounded by works in progress, many of them featuring the stylized samurai that have become his trademark. He feels a kinship to their uncompromising independence. "[Famed samurai] Musashi Miyamoto learned his skill on his own, and beat everyone," he says. "I feel similar. Instead of learning from someone else, I think it's better that I just establish myself...
...Kemp-Bresett, NASHUA, N.H.I have heard some criticism about her casting, but it is not about the color of your skin. It is about who you are. I asked her to play the role--even though she is way more beautiful than I am--because I felt a real kinship to her. She put her whole heart into it, and I think she understood why we should do this movie. We had something to say that we knew we should say together...
...part of a new crop of young African-American politicians--like Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Illinois Senator Barack Obama--who attended élite colleges. Do you feel any kinship with them...
...black American, in this view, one's ancestors must have been not simply slaves but American slaves. Furthermore, directly mirroring the traditional definition of whiteness as not being black is the growing tendency to define blackness in negative terms--it is to be not white in upbringing, kinship or manner, to be too not at ease in the intimate ways of white Americans...
...killed and resurrected himself as the do-gooder Spirit. With Superman and Batman and their caped cronies running altruistically amok through urban mean streets, Eisner was encouraged to make his protagonist a bit more like them; only reluctantly did he slap a mask on the Spirit to establish his kinship to the superheroes. New York (Metropolis, Gotham) was here called Central City, though later the Spirit traveled abroad. Sometimes he nearly disappeared from his own strip, making only a perfunctory appearance in the lives of supporting characters or guest villains. In that sense, The Spirit was a proletarian comic strip...