I can’t stop thinking about Fern in the snow.
Played by Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao’s stunning “Nomadland,” the character is living out of her van, traveling the country after both an economic bust in her industrial community and her husband’s death have left her adrift. In a scene that stuck in my head even before Austin was blanketed in white and its worn-out residents were left to freeze, Fern finds herself somewhere out in empty America, the vistas searing, blank and frigid. A woman approaches the van and tries to get Fern to seek shelter at a Baptist church from an oncoming blizzard.
Nomadland drops Frances McDormand into a rootless life on the open road 1039wvbo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 1039wvbo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Book World: What made the civil rights movement successful - and what came next
Clifford Thompson, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
By Thomas C. Holt
By Chad Sanders
- - -
Thomas C. Holt s slim volume, The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, achieves in just 120 pages of text a comprehensiveness that belies its length. What makes that possible is that Holt focuses on the civil rights movement itself rather than the personalities involved. We do not get, say, an assessment of the character of Martin Luther King Jr. or speculation about Ralph David Abernathy s envy of his more famous best friend. What we do get is a fascinating breakdown of the movement s phases as well as a look at the groundwork that made the successes possible.