Word: breast
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...soul. Another shows a white man with a carefully trimmed beard boxing with a Negro. The black man is getting the worst of the fight, and there is blood on his back. ("The ancients must have had race problems, too," says Napoli.) Six serving women, each with one breast exposed, dance around the bier of their richly dressed mistress-celebrating rather than lamenting her death. In still another panel, two professional soldiers engage in mock combat, flourishing shields and spears...
...chose as his lead-off witness Dr. Hugh J. Davis, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1962 Davis has specialized in intrauterine devices (lUDs) and he is one of the inventors of a ring device not yet on the market. Davis argued that "breast cancers have been induced in at least five different species of animals by treatment with the same synthetic hormones being marketed in the oral contraceptives. Every important agent which has a carcinogenic [cancer-causing] effect in humans has been shown to cause cancer in animals. There is no reason," Davis...
...woman who has ever had migraines is likely to find that they strike more often and more severely after she goes on the Pill. Others may suffer their first, alarming and hideously painful migraine when taking the Pill. Among other "contraindications," as doctors call them, are diabetes, liver disease, breast cancer and possibly rheumatoid arthritis. Serious allegations against the Pill which cannot yet be proved or disproved are that it may cause genetic changes, or damage the fetus, as does thalidomide...
...When Cav and Pag came out in the 1890s, there was a certain honesty in creating grand opera about common peopie. To go on captivating audiences today, such operas do not need modernizing. They need the courage of their own melodramatic convictions, overwhelming the audience with old-fashioned breast beating, hair pulling and singing that soars and thrills...
...group seems to belong to some other time; they have much the same kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool within easy Rolls Royce distance of London. He likes to swim, she cannot. Also on hand is a quack faith healer. These elements might have been mixed into some sort of vulgar melodrama; with Pritchett, the story...