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By the time I got to Beijing in 1995, it was clear to me, the only way to achieve gender equality was to overturn centuries of oppressive tradition.
Improbably, this LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
They have to subvert tradition that once silenced them in order to give voice to new aspirations.
We can use our tradition to navigate change.
When the media talks about the vinyl revival that's been happening these last few years, they often forget to mention this community that's been keeping the vinyl and the tradition and the culture alive for these last 30 years.
Three things that actually help to build on this foundation: The very first one is honoring of tradition and being open to new ideas.
Here is our tradition: At every Himba village, there is a sacred fire.
They want to prioritize it above things like money and prestige and tradition.
It's an old Eastern tradition based on the knowledge that it's not healthy for a human being to spend too much time staring at his own reflection.
Of course, in Muslim, because of the teachings around the concept of idolatry, you don't find as many physical representations of divinity or of spiritual liberation as you do in the Buddhist tradition, where, of course, there are many statues of the Buddha that are highly revered.
And perhaps even more interesting from our point of view, another tension between novelty-seeking behaviors and tradition or conservation.
As for the haka, this is a bunch of yanks trying to imitate a tradition they know nothing about, much like the white rasta character that should have been left out of the film.
All-in-all, a pretty lame effort that thoroughly betrays the Cannibal tradition.
The bearings of western-style Feminism on the various subcultures of India have hitherto remained largely non-existent, the two entities belonging to alien realms and threatening (in the name of tradition) never to coincide.
If this film becomes a holiday tradition I am going to have to hide for Christmas for the rest of my life.
The tag line on the front of the box says"..in the tradition of DePalma's Body Double.
This could have been a very good film, a very interesting look at ancient tradition and oral history, but it should have been a short subject.
It has been a tradition since my first VHS recorder for me to collect several of the incarnations of the old chestnut by Charles Dickens, and I taped this one and "Karroll's Christmas" this year.
I was in Video Ezy at Miranda with my family on a monthly video hiring tradition.
When they end up discovering the secret relationship, things get messy when someone is killed and the human is forced to participate in a deadly tradition in which he is set loose in the woods and is hunted - giving the pack a chance to transform into their "wolfy" selves.
The Pang Brothers (Danny & Oxide) previously made the extremely overrated "The Eye" and it sort of is a tradition for them to build up a story with clues and hints towards a point where it becomes nearly impossible to meet the expectations of their curious audiences, yet they don't seem eager to alter their formula any time soon.
Baron Frankenstein(Joseph Cotten)is murdered by his own creation and now his daughter decides to carry on the family tradition by creating herself a lover.
Even in the tradition of "wrong man accused" it fails, because the police never seriously accuse the professor, and the killer is never after him.
Plunkett and Macleane is a wonderful updating of the swashbuckling tradition, predating Johny Depp and his pirate friends.
However, in the grand tradition of "The Scottish Play", the production seems cursed with problems, not least of which is some madman slicing up the crew.
Estevez, who plays the returning vet, wants no part of family tradition and insists on wearing his combat fatigues to dinner, explaining "This is what I wore last Thanksgiving."
Robert Duvall's famous line (the other one) does not need repeating as it has become an oft repeated anthem and his Pattonesque character will long be remembered as a classic American war hawk in the John Wayne tradition.
This movie coming from Turkey where you can't find any tradition of horror movies.
The film works because it's in the indie tradition - dealing with complex issues, yet moving and relieved by touches of understated humour.
Those who feel that this is like a TV play are not entirely wrong but while Andrea Newman was to become famous for risqué TV drama, this film is more in the tradition of the 'kitchen-sink'films such as 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' but with an emphasis on middle-class rather than working-class life.
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