Word: delis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this interventionist approach to childbirth that enrages Harrison above all else. What she saw at her hospital bears no resemblance to the gradual, intimate, rhythmic process she found so moving during home births. "Childbirth is a surgical procedure," she is told in training. Though Harrison believes that each deli very has its own "natural pace," births at the hospital are expected to follow the contours of an idealized graph of how labor is supposed to progress. When a woman departs from the curve, doctors turn to preordained procedures. They may speed things up by administering Pitocin, a labor-inducing drug...
...Scout photography program, where his success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today, "I'd probably have ended up as an ax murderer or a butcher in a Jewish deli.") One high school jock who used to taunt Steven was won over when the young director cast him in an 8-mm movie called Battle Squad. At Phoenix's Arcadia High School, Spielberg found fellow spirits in the theater-arts program-"my leper colony. That's when I realized there were...
...cream and pretzel cart. This vendor gave out a free pretzel with every 75-cent egg cream he sold. At the deli around the corner, you could get an egg cream for 40 cents and a pretzel for a quarter...
Neil Simon is probably tired of hearing that his work subsists on absurdist non sequiturs, deli-flavored New York humor and crisp punch-liners. So what else is new? Not Little Me, alas...
...that's just not good football sense. I mean, the people sucking down beers at the Dirty (a Deli-Bar-Hangout) a few blocks away knew that halfback Kevin Powell was going to carry the ball up the middle. Nobody knew it better than the Harvard defensive line and linebackers, who smothered Powell for no gain--no easy feat, as Powell was spinning and sliding through tackles like a greased pig for most of the afternoon...