Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from rape to dismemberment -- with an R. Each new violent movie, like this summer's Total Recall, wants to astonish jaded audiences with its special-effects audacity. But adult sexuality, even when investigated as discreetly as it is in Henry & June, is deemed objectionable. "You can cut off a breast," says Kaufman, "but you can't caress it. The violent majority is dictating to a tender minority...
...their children. Yuppie characters and issues are proliferating, as usual, but with a new strain of self-criticism. The extended family that is the focus of CBS's Sons and Daughters includes a twentysomething couple trying to adjust to a new baby. Mom is exasperated at having to breast-feed so often, while her callow husband is more excited about his automatic tennis server. The same sort of problem seems imminent for the expectant parents of Married People, an ABC sitcom about couples in a New York City apartment house. She's a lawyer disgusted by her swollen ankles...
Determined pro-choicers say RU 486 could enter the U.S. through the back door. The drug has potential as a therapy for endometriosis and breast cancer. If RU 486 were approved to treat these conditions, doctors could also prescribe it for abortions. Roussel opposes any deception. Says Dr. Baulieu: "RU 486 has to be sold as the abortion pill that...
...show will fare in nations not so nostalgic for the Sixties, Beatlemania, and adolescence. But as McCartney winds up his U.S. leg of the tour, there's no doubt the affection American audiences have for this member of the Fab Four. Women might no longer bare their breast the way they would when the group played, but their hearts are still belong to McCartney...
...rest (as the word has gone out, an ever increasing percentage), it is an act of man. They, of course, deserve our care and treatment. But it is hard to see from where they derive the claim to be first in line -- ahead of those dying of leukemia and breast cancer and stroke -- for the resources and compassion of a nation...