Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ephron and her husband Henry were prolific and successful screenwriters in the 1940s and '50s, getting credit for at least one masterpiece, The Desk Set. Nora says her mother did the actual typing, while "my father did the pacing up and down" -- roughly the same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough...
However, it was clear to me that childbirth was not a plausible scenario. Neither I nor the father had the means or the real desire to raise a child, nor would I have felt comfortable carrying the fetus to term and giving it up for adoption. So I made an appointment for an abortion at Planned Parenthood...
...Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, California, the emphasis is on a mix of video and poetry called Telepoetics. At one recent event a poet in Santa Fe read a work about childbirth over telephone wires that fed into the cafe public address system. While her disembodied voice filled the room, images of her performance in New Mexico were projected onto three TV screens...
...most are indifferent to this form of discrimination. These movies are the biggest grossers, Donoghue admits, but she's not interested in doing them. Silver is reluctant to rule them out for women, "any more than I'd want to say that a man can't possibly do a childbirth scene." Lili Zanuck, whose Rush is said to be about as tough as movies come, thinks crime drama somehow suits her. "You want to tell a story you can tell best," and she likes "the reality, the element of factual truth" in Rush. Besides, she believes that the movie...
...happening to the American family. Those of us in the sane center are always being clobbered by both the left and the right. We think of ourselves as a nation that cherishes its children, but, in fact, America treats its children like excess baggage. In all other countries, childbirth is seen as an event that is vitally important to the life and future of the nation. But in the U.S. we treat child rearing as some kind of expensive private hobby...