Word: sisterhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phoebe Ephron produced a busy sisterhood of scribblers. Amy, the youngest, a novelist, admits, "I wasn't exactly encouraged to be a landscape painter." Only Hallie, the third daughter, has not tried her hand at fiction. (She is a computer programmer...
OVERSEAS. Three Frenchwomen in postwar North Africa wait for their hearts to tumble and the colonial empire to crumble. This essay in sisterhood marks an assured debut from actress-director Brigitte Rouan. But the big news is Marianne Basler, a stunner, as the most restless of the sisters...
...These young Englishwomen are "friends," with all the baggage -- competition, envy, bonding and bondage -- that the word carries. Marcy Kahan's witty script sees all men as dolts, and director Beeban Kidron sees all camera angles as cute, but you could still enjoy this wry, desperate comedy of '90s sisterhood...
...sisterhood: "My friendships with girls usually don't last too long. I'm not interested in a lot of the things they are, I guess." On femininity: "I never had the gift of looking cute. I hate dresses and jewelry, and the only doll I played with was a G.I. Joe. And I've got this deep voice. That's why they call me Froggy at school...
...furthering individual survival and reproduction," says Wilson. "Ants have arranged their social life so that the unit of survival is the colony." An ant is not an individual in the usual sense. Its life has no meaning apart from its colony, a superorganism that Wilson defines as "a sisterhood devoted to the survival of the queen." In sociobiological terms, males are sperm carriers tolerated only as inseminators of virgin queens. When ants go to war, Wilson points out, they enlist their old ladies, not their young males...