In an amiably sappy way, "Hairspray" is offering a racial fable: blacks teach whites how to move, liberating their bodies, and whites help blacks gain their rights.
It was a smart move: Liberate's stock has since fallen to the single digits.
Izzard pictures two pissed-off Saxon waiters taking an order and stroppily making the momentous decision to scrap giving nouns a gender (masculine, feminine, neuter or "just a fucking spoon"?), a move that liberated English on its way to world pre-eminence.
Yes, that's right: as we move to liberate the Iraqis, our first step may be to deliver people who have been effectively independent since 1991 into the hands of a hated foreign overlord.
While some faith leaders will continue to oppose any move to liberate women from traditional roles and the subservient status at the core of their Islamist ideology, ultimately it will be up to women and their political allies who will win the battle for gender equality, personal liberty and human rights in Kurdistan.
Home broadband and Wi-Fi on the move have already liberated us physically from our desks, but the real game-changer is the platforms we use, because that's what has finally dissolved the boundaries between work and play.
But, despite being sober and solo, I find the atmosphere surprisingly euphoric, and my overall memories are of smiling dancers whose moves became more liberated as the night rolled into morning.
Reading accounts of his career, I found myself profoundly moved — even somehow liberated — to think that the fashion labels that, for me as a schoolgirl, had symbolized privilege and exclusion had, in fact, been created by someone — a genuine creative spirit — who soared above stereotypes and social boundaries.
Angela is angry and confused, sometimes ready to feel joyfully liberated and move on, other times hopeful for reconciliation and reluctant to sign the divorce papers.
Washington is also using its heft as the biggest supplier of humanitarian aid to Somalia to encourage private aid agencies to move quickly into "newly liberated areas" and deliver services like food and medicine to the beleaguered Somali people in an effort to make the government more popular.
