Word: aborting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew he was a teacher. And Heinrich, who has been renounced by the son he never met, sees in the Dalai Lama a boy so beautiful and curious he could be any wandering father's perfect child. But it is now 1949, and the Chinese communists have plans to abort this theocratic fairy tale. Tibet, they declare, is theirs...
...Park, followed by Con Air, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Batman & Robin, Face/Off and Men in Black--the big films look like instant remakes, retreads or reductios ad absurdum of last Friday's film, which wasn't all that hot either. Some of the movies have incidental felicities, and, to abort all suspense right now, Face/Off is damn fine. But in sum, these films offer evidence that the action-adventure has reached a point of exhaustion. Seen as one 12-hour epic, this multiplex six-pack moves less on cruise control than on automatic pilot. This is zombie entertainment: cinema with...
...terrible thing to force a 12-year-old who lives in chaos, poverty and hopelessness, with a boyfriend who has disappeared or an abusive uncle who hasn't, to have a baby. But it's a worse thing to let her abort it when she comes so late for help that the only difference between the baby's being born alive or dead is whether she gives birth in a maternity ward or a clinic. This doesn't happen often, but even one time is too many to defend...
...Absolute Power, the Leader of the Free World, the heir of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, almost kills a paramour during rough sex and then aids in the cover-up. In the summer's hot title Exclusive, the President of the United States murders the baby his girlfriend refused to abort. In the film Escape from L.A., the Chief Executive orders the assassination of his own daughter, while in the movie version of Primary Colors, John Travolta is slated to play the lyin', cheatin' and stealin' First Stud. By today's standards of popular culture, Richard Nixon was a saint. Jail...
...against the advice of her doctor, she had sex shortly after taking fertility drugs. This event would have been noteworthy enough, but Allwood reportedly had neglected to mention the drugs to her boyfriend, who had a family elsewhere. Pro-life groups rallied to her side when she refused to abort any of the fetuses. She argued that she didn't want to choose which ones would die. But her reluctance may also have been due to News of the World. She sold the story of the impending births to the tab, and there had been speculation it would...