Word: childbirth
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...heart of the play is Gar's relationship to his father (his mother died, as one would predict, in childbirth). No warmth passes between the two, for which Gar is bitterly resentful and partly responsible, but their memories and dreams of a past, happier time surface again and again throughout the play and finally bring them to the edge of an understanding in a sleepless, early morning scene...
...Chloe wonders, and with good reason. The men in their lives have been uniformly childish and egotistical. The women's bodies bear the scars of childbirth and abortion; men have etched humiliation on their souls. Faced with her husband's latest infidelity, Chloe decides to spend a day in London visiting Marjorie and Grace. They too are in their early 40s, their pasts a stream of errors. Grace has become a shrill hoyden, Marjorie an asexual careerist. They bicker and discuss each other's failings with a cool dispassion usually reserved for inanimate objects...
...phlebitis) accompanied by a clot (thrombus) that has formed in the vein. It may occur anywhere in the body, but is most common in the legs, where clots seem to form more easily. People who sit or stand for long periods are particularly susceptible, as are patients recovering from childbirth or surgery-one reason doctors get them out of bed as soon as possible. Once one is afflicted, however, bed rest (with the limb elevated) is usually the best therapy...
...wife enters a factory for a job interview. Inside a doctor's office for a medical examination, she and another, younger, woman stand stripped and defenseless as they suffer the mindless prods of an unctuous company doctor. Her eyes fill with tears when the doctor notices the scars of childbirth on her stomach and notifies her that they want only unmarried women for the job. She rejoins her husband outside and the two walk back slowly in the direction from which they came...
Christened John Brooks Elam, Fuqua was adopted and raised by his mother's parents and given their name. His mother died from complications arising at childbirth, and his father, a struggling tobacco farmer, could not afford to raise...