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...first group will consist of pregnant women planning to keep their babies. The second group will involve women who have just had abortions and the third and fourth categories will include women who have had spontaneous miscarriages or etopic pregnancies, Stubblefield said...
...great many of these letters consist of a kind of British banterchatter. The author of the shimmeringly exquisite Waves, writing to her artist-sister Vanessa Bell, natters on endlessly about the servant problem, her dog Shot, the difficulties of choosing chair covers, the advisability of drinking plenty of milk, and the jolly monotony of life in the Sussex country ("Leonard caught two moles this morning"). Deeper feelings blurt through only in a sentence here and there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands...
...fireworks in Esclmonde. One hears instead her middle-high range - lustrous, dusky, moving seamlessly between registers. No other singer could bring this music so close to distinction. Among the other principals, Mezzo Huguette Tourangeau, as the Empress' sister, sang with impeccable French style. The sets by Beni Montresor consist mostly of scrims and drops on which light shows swirl. To fashion his opulent costumes, the garment district must have emptied its bins of beads...
Newman's previous book on the decline of English, the bestselling Strictly Speaking, seemed to consist largely of dreadfully apt examples Newman had stuffed into a desk drawer over the years. These prompted readers to send him their own favorite examples. A Civil Tongue appears to be written from the mailbag. It offers a plethora of mangled speech and prose, drawn not only from advertisers, politicians, sportcasters and sociologists, but also from people who should know better, such as educators and journalists (among the most cited offenders: the New York Times, TIME* and Newman's employer...
...team members work on a scheduled program of independent post-row exercises, designed to build up their endurance and strength. The exercises consist of calisthenics, weight training, running a four-mile course, or yet another form of torture...