Cultural historians of the United States tend to discuss the locus of middle-class masculinity from the late nineteenth century on as increasingly situated in bodily strength and fortitude. Norman ...Rockwell's humorous illustrations of the figures of the sissy and the fop from early in this century have rarely been taken seriously as cultural texts, yet they offer a point of access for the consideration of an overlooked contemporary manliness fashioned through men's dress. This sartorial masculinity-a conduit for codes of class, race, sexuality, and nationality-endowed even the most lithesome figure with manhood through mass-produced consumer goods.
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Presents a lesson on the creation and work of the U.S. Children's Bureau, the first national agency specifically for children and youth. Includes a document in which Grace Abbott, one of the Bureau's ...chiefs, expresses problems faced by the Children's Bureau. Offers questions for class discussion. (CMK)
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Set in Prohibition-era Chicago,The Untouchablesshows Treasury agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and his handpicked band of incorruptible men—veteran cop Malone (Sean Connery), rookie Stone (Andy ...Garcia), and accountant Wallace (Charles Martin Smith)—pitted against mob kingpin Al Capone (Robert De Niro). But sometimes, as De Palma has indicated, the film may seem less like “a gangster movie” and “more like aMagnificent Seven”¹ (the John Sturges Western). According to location manager Eric Schwab, De Palma told him that “this is a Western. Good guys. Bad guys.”² Hence, the rather improbable scene set in a Western landscape where
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Everything was plunged in darkness as night descended from heaven to earth. No one was walking along the corridor-like alley. Streetlights were perched at intervals like evil goblins, trying to ...eradicate the darkness and stop its cancer-like spread. The wind had started blowing violently, and that made some partially closed windows bang loudly against the walls. But even though the wind was blowing, it wasn’t cold; actually, it was quite warm. Even so, no one was out. It felt as if a war had started, or else winter had arrived early.
At times like these, Ibrahim would make just as
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