Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife, who has taken up with a female novelist--his love for her continues "to grow, like nails on a corpse"; Zev Turtletaub, a brutalizing, gay producer, fantastically successful, is developing a modern adaptation of Gogol's Dead Souls to star Alec Baldwin; casting director Sara Radisson-Stein gives birth to a son who is blind, and she writes moving letters to him ("I'm sitting beside you as I write; the faintest light falls upon your marzipan cheek. You're the sweetest plum..."), while her TV-producer husband descends into crack addiction. The content of Wagner's satire...
...much of the play, things run smoothly, as the audience absorbs any information it can in order to figure out this rearranged murder mystery: a birth mystery, asking why Ruth and Anna needed to create such fantasies. The childlike wonder of their imagination when faced with Peter's good-natured, yet impatient incredulity produces numerous opportunities for a comedy that tantalizes us with the perversity of supposedly responsible adults' having such fantasies...
When the House of Representatives voted last week to overturn President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion, some opponents saw more politics than principle behind the gesture. How better to portray Clinton as an extremist than by reminding voters that he had defended a practice that big majorities find repugnant? What better gift to give Bob Dole, as he searches for the wedge issues that might give him traction with the conservative and Roman Catholic voters who should form the base of his support...
...when even abortion opponents admit that few hospitals perform third-trimester abortions and fewer still the controversial procedure in which a doctor removes a fetus feetfirst, then makes an incision in the baby's head to suck out the brain, collapse the skull and extract the head from the birth canal. In many such abortions, the fetus is so severely deformed or the pregnancy so complicated that carrying the child to term would threaten the life or health of the mother. Here lies the core of the fight: Clinton supports a ban if it allows exceptions to protect the mother...
Though no one has reliable figures, experts estimate that partial-birth abortion accounts for perhaps 600 of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. Its rarity, however, takes nothing away from its horror, and all along, the symbolic importance of the issue has driven both sides of the debate. The ban that passed earlier this year was the first attempt by Congress to outlaw a specific abortion procedure in the 23 years since the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Roe v. Wade...