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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTIAL-TRUTH ABORTION | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...audience's feeling of ennui and superiority to the characters becomes clearest with the resolution of the play. Janie's boyfriend, Marty (Shrier), moves very rapidly through their relationship. He places a down payment on an apartment without even consulting her; when she doesn't feel comfortable moving in with him, he becomes upset. But as she starts to push him away from her life, he becomes more insightful, telling Janie that she's "shy and clumsy" and that she makes her life "harder than it has to be." Ironically, Janie uses Marty's advice and insight to dump...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: Life Stinks | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...ages 3 to 11. Over the past 11 years she had accrued 99 arrests, mostly on prostitution and drug charges. But she probably had no idea what sort of man she was visiting; Singleton's first crime predated Florida's public-notice statute on sex offenders. Said her grieving boyfriend: "Roxanne did nothing to deserve what she got from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RECURRING NIGHTMARE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

Sounds like a good boyfriend...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Animal Magnetism | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...example, Betty tells Bill she has a "sort-of boyfriend." Bill, reasonably enough, asks, "What's a sort-of boyfriend?" to which she promptly responds, "We were meeting here to break up." And the bell rings. Then, the alternate version: "What's sort of boyfriend?"--"My lover. Here she comes right now!"--and again the bell rings...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Fast-Paced Production of Ives Play Almost a Sure Thing | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

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