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Almost 7000 Massachusetts women every year depend on Medicaid funding for abortions. Without this aid they would be left with the horrible choice between an unwanted child and a back-alley abortion. Before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, such abortions were the leading cause of maternal death and disfigurement. And without private insurance coverage, even middle class women may be forced to turn to cheaper, unsafe underground abortions...
...miracles of the computer age ("Everything else gets tiny," she says, "but portable radios get enormous"), Peggy Sue is streaked with melancholy. She is an alien in 1960; she will be stranded too when she returns to the '80s, where the boulevard of possibilities has narrowed to a blind alley. Reconciling with Charlie or starting life over without him seem dour alternatives after her glimpse at the limitless prospects of her youth. Like the Jimmy Stewart character in Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, she receives the gift of second sight. But Peggy Sue's flashback convinces...
...mother, too, was a poor bowler and frequently sent the ball skidding toward the sides of the alley. Once, she flung the ball so hard into the gutter that it sprung out and knocked down a few pins. Amazed, she yelled, "Fantastic...
...mother didn't care much about the game. She came to the alley to have fun, she said. My father, on the other hand, was deadly serious about bowling. Before he went to bowl, he stared at the pins for a minute, took a few measured steps and hurled the ball toward the end of the alley. He cursed a poor frame and congratulated himself on a good...
This summer, I went to Florida with my friend and her retarded sister, Carol. One night we went to a bowling alley. We were sun-burned and tired, but Carol was peppy and eager, and she went first and rolled the ball, under-handed, into the gutter. She turned around and smiled...