Mrs. Obama is a supportive but often anxious spouse, suspicious of conventional political thinking, a groundbreaking figure who has acutely felt the pressures and possibilities of being the first African-American in her position and a first lady who has worked to make her role more meaningful.
"Men just enjoy being in charge more," says Polly Platt, a groundbreaking figure in Hollywood as a production designer (The Last Picture Show) and producer (Broadcast News)... ..But most of the women I know didn't enjoy the perks of the job, like when you walk onto the set and everyone's waiting for you to make a decision.
Giving up, she listed a few of the groundbreaking figures who had passed through the Schomburg during her tenure: Gordon Parks, Maya Angelou, Arthur Ashe.
"Luiz Gonzaga was one of those groundbreaking figures, like Elvis Presley," said the percussionist Mauro Refosco, a founder of the New York-based band Forró in the Dark, which has recorded or performed several of Gonzaga's songs.
Groundbreaking figures are worshipped in Puerto Rico with special zeal: Roberto Clemente, the baseball great, and now Judge Sotomayor, have catapulted to fame in part because people here see them as weapons against the world's perceived prejudice or, worse, indifference.
Like many groundbreaking female figures of the past few decades, the female C.E.O.
Let's make one thing clear: Serena Williams -- likely the greatest female tennis player ever, potentially the greatest female athlete ever and one of the most influential and groundbreaking sports figures of her generation -- should not have to get down on her knees, grovel or express her gratitude to any male athlete for helping her on the road to success. .
Despite its retraction the following year (McLachlan 1997) and eventual designation as fraud [Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) 2001], the discussion and concern initially generated by this purported "groundbreaking" paper figured significantly in regulatory decisions and public policy.
Gravity, Interstellar's main autumn-release comparison point, opened fairly quietly abroad ($28.4m), but a gradually widening rollout saw word-of-mouth about its groundbreaking visuals build that figure week by week.
In 1938, after receiving the last Rhodes scholarship awarded in Germany, he went to Wadham College, Oxford, where he began collaborating on the attributive work that led to Beazley's groundbreaking "Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters" and "Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters".
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