Word: childbirth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Comforted by Affluence. Marriage is the frequent setting for these identity crises. The housewife sees it as a den of snakes, resents childbirth, old age, her husband's masculinity (or lack of it), the act of love, a male universe, and possibly George Washington's birthday. The husband is comforted neither by apples, affluence, martinis, the Democrats, nor a dead God. The partners turn inward-defeated by teenyboppers, Red China, polluted air, Kinsey's statistics, retreating hairlines, wash day, the office bastard, a pot-smoking son, Leda's swan, the snows of yesteryear. They devour each...
...have somebody to love." Both white and Negro girls who have been aided by the centers are far more inclined to return to school than those who have not. At a four-year-old center in Oakland, Calif., for example, 94% of the students have continued their studies after childbirth...
...Late Show, you will doubtless remember a picture called Green Dolphin Street, a Lana Turner-Van Heflin epic of the mid-'40's. In this one, Turner and Heflin are madly tempestuously in love amidst the turmoil of young growing New Zealand, complete with floods, forest fires, earthquakes, childbirth, and assorted variations on the seven deadly sins...
...played Swedishly by von Sydow, is so unswervingly dogmatic about his job that he soon exhausts the audience, which watches his predictable life-story with bovine good nature, groaning "Oh no, not again!" at his every line. Julie Andrews stoically survives the pangs of sexual frustration, the pain of childbirth, and the ravages of time, until the make-up department decides she can't take any more, at which point she is allowed to die offscreen...
...limpness. "Nervousness is bad for the breathing," she explains. Besides, "I don't have to live my reviews. I have something else to go home to"-meaning a husband, Canadian Conductor-Violinist Eugene Kash, and five children, aged two to ten. While most female opera singers shun childbirth for fear that it will some how hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that it has extended her range by 21 notes on top and 21 on the bottom, "one for each baby." She travels ten months of the year, with bookings arranged so that she can pop home to Toronto...