Word: birthed
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...perfect essay, like life itself, is exact in formal procedure and logical ascent. It has a beginning, known more intimately as a birth, a middle, that part in which one determines the direction and slant of one's future endeavors, and an end, the climax toward which all prior experiences naturally lead and in which the essence of the topic, one's purpose, becomes known. Let us proceed now to discuss first the birth, second the middle, and third the end of the perfect essay...
...extortion. To buttress these claims, Baum's opening statement walked the jury through a lengthy history of contacts between Cosby and both Jackson and her mother, Shawn Thompson. Baum said it was Cosby who suggested Thompson list her former boyfriend, Gerald Jackson, as the father on Autumn's birth certificate. (Cosby's attorney denies the allegation.) Baum traced years of "gifts" bestowed by Cosby, including trust funds and cars for both women and a front-row seat for Jackson at the 1991 taping of the final episode of The Cosby Show. Only after Jackson and her mother fought last December...
...seen her fast-talking, tough-gal shtick before--but here she backlights her act with a implicit desperation that gnaws away at one's core. Even her act feels tragic as such: like a dreamy teenager, she rattles off to Mrs. Stilton her favorite movie stars and their birth places, and we begin to think she herself is merely an amalgam of all the brands of scrappy newspaperwoman bravery she's seen on screen...
Exploitation films come in all genres, but the staple was sex. Kroger Babb, who billed himself as "Mr. Pihsnamwohs" (showmanship spelled backward), ballyhooed his 1944 birth-of-a-baby film, Mom and Dad, so successfully that it ran for decades and, according to the Grindhouse authors, earned $100 million. And in the late '50s, as bold European films lured the art-house crowds, a new breed of grind gurus revived sexploitation...
CHARGED. MELISSA DREXLER, 18, enigmatic teen who secretly gave birth in a rest-room stall at her senior prom, dumped her baby into the trash, then headed for the dance floor; with murder and endangering a child; in Freehold, N.J. Prosecutors say the boy was alive at the time of delivery and died of asphyxiation...