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...solely to keep the big fight at bay. The script's stalling techniques are random and far fetched. Stallone tries to create drama out of Rocky's inexplicable inability to gain steady employment, his domestic foibles and, finally, out of his wife's simultaneous bouts with childbirth and coma. These developments are so poorly conceived that Adrian's brother (a newly slim Burt Young) must dart in and out of scenes to deliver plot information. Once Rocky starts to train in earnest, the film becomes less a sequel than a prosaic remake. "For a 45-minute...
Mary has never quite recovered from the pain and confusion of childbirth, Joseph kvetches about cuckoldry, and Jesus sometimes feels like a designated hitter...
Mead had a penchant for looking at an institution, be it childbirth or birth control, from a new and different angle, applying new concepts and precepts gleaned from a life of continuous observation. Because she was far more willing and even anxious to experiment than most of her more conservative co-workers, many of them criticized...
...women, older than most of the section people who give them their grades, see many of them as narrow individuals, inundated with academia. Susanna's darkest hour came during her freshman year in biology class. Her section leader was explaining how wonderful were all the new machines that aid childbirth. Susanna "just started tentatively trying to talk about how I have had a kid and I hadn't wanted any machines around and it was very important to me to expose myself in some way to the furies of nature. And there were all these kids sitting there sneering...
...Victoria was never quite at home in that world, despite her intense reverence for its grandeur and tradition. Brought up in the isolation of a rented villa, a decorous distance from her father's diplomatic post, she was put in a convent after her mother died in childbirth. Not until she was 19, when her father was appointed British Minister to Washington, did Victoria obtain a glimpse of high society. She was notably unworldly for an heiress of one of England's great families and vacillated between those polarities of temperament that her daughter described as "the gypsy...