Word: childbirth
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...core of the book is a well-conceived act of psychological villainy: the hero, crippled emotionally when his second wife dies in childbirth, raises his infant daughter in her mother's cold image, and thwarts all the child's efforts to break free of his oppressive love. But swathed about this core is an unbelievable amount of mustachioed melodrama. The novel's major fault is that, for the greater part of its length, the major actors glide about like decapitated ghosts searching for their heads, scaring the daylights out of onlookers but affecting each other...
Died. Dr. Grantly Dick Read. 69, champion of natural childbirth, who argued that labor pains are largely caused by fear, reported (No Time for Fear) from a trip to Africa that 95% of the unafraid primitive women he examined had painless deliveries; in Wroxham, England...
...ploys and counterploys of the campaign involve some fairly melodramatic goings-on, including an illegitimate childbirth in the street, a scene full of authentic Faulknerian gore. Author Stone is expert at suggesting the blend of revival-meeting urgency, circus gaiety, and kith-and-kin intimacy that flavors rural Southern politics. But the serpentine twists and turns of logic in his novel would tax Laocoön on a good wrestling day. There is a baffling subplot about a priggish schoolteacher and his nymphomaniac wife, who farms out her favors on a faded billiard table. Though the teacher is unnerved...
...first, only Europe's artists admired the primitive sculpture. Then, in 1867, when Maximilian's soldiers returned from Mexico with hundreds of figurines, the collectors' interest was piqued. One of the earliest finds was the famed stone statue of Goddess Tlazolteotl in the act of childbirth (see cut). A French collector first bought it for a few francs. Current owner: U.S. Collector Robert Woods Bliss, who has it insured...
...girl talk. "I've been dusting the objects d'art." (Her fans will recall that Miss Tinee's wedding gift to her husband was a life-size nude statue of herself.) A nursemaid appeared, carrying Mae's new-born infant Garnette and Mae explained, "I had her by natural childbirth. I didn't want to miss one minute of it. My husband Ulysses did the preparation exercises right along with...