Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement Stern and Whitehead struck required her to experience such feelings--for a fee. But there are limits to what men and women can know about their own bodies or their own psyches, and they remain even when technology makes it possible for one woman to bear a child for another. No one can predict what feelings a particular pregnancy might inspire well enough to put a price on them...
...Coke and Pepsi swap recipes? Maybe not, but two rivals in the toy industry are marrying their successful products in a surprising team-up. The unlikely allies: Hasbro, whose G.I. Joe toys have been best sellers for years, and Worlds of Wonder, creators of Teddy Ruxpin, the talking bear, and Lazer Tag, which was the rage last Christmas among youngsters and even denizens of college dorms...
...already ruinous. Hart talks about a "more important role for Government, not necessarily a larger one." Joseph Biden is somewhat more inspirational, evoking generational memories of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and constantly quoting a hymn: "And he will raise you up on eagle's wings,/ and bear you on the breath of the dawn...
Three of Author Walker Percy's five previous novels bear titles with implications of apocalypse: The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins and The Second Coming. The other two, The Moviegoer and Lancelot, are exceptions in name only. For all of Percy's fiction revolves around a central question: can humane, civilized life survive this murderous, mechanized century? Details change from book to book, but a number of constants recur. The hero is typically a Southerner and a loner, a weirdo in the eyes of friends and relatives, whose despair at the decline of civilization has lured him into alcoholism...
...sample reels of their movies-in-progress, seeking to find buyers at film festivals and industry conventions all over the world. One independent, John Sayles, director of the 1984 hit The Brother from Another Planet, finances his own movies by grinding out screenplays like The Clan of the Cave Bear for major Hollywood studios...