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Even readers who agree with the parajournalists of Women's Liberation are often embarrassed to find their positions taken with so much self-pity and self-righteousness, with such bloated excesses of tractarian rhetoric. In stark contrast stand the lean, sharp novels of British writers like Edna O'Brien and Margaret Drabble, and American fictionists like Joan Didion...
...desire of some Women's Liberationists to avoid male obstetricians. Another reason is the gradual acceptance of home delivery outside of remote rural areas, where it is often a necessity. "The difference between a home delivery and a hospital delivery is the difference between day and night," says Mary Edna Fitzpatrick, recently retired from teaching at the Medical College of Virginia and a veteran of about 140 deliveries during her own years as a public-health nurse. "At home you don't get any screaming and yelling, and you don't have to use as much medication. Labor is shortened...
Giant. Minor bits by James Dean and Dennis Hopper illuminate this baggy epic from the Edna Ferber bestseller. CH.4. Two parts. Sat. 9 p.m., Mon. 9 p.m. Color...
...best lines have gone flat, despite Howard Teichmann's efforts to freshen them. In 1952 Teichmann collaborated with Kaufman in the writing of one of Kaufman's last plays, The Solid Gold Cadillac. He was late in a line of distinguished collaborators who included Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Moss Hart. Teichmann approaches his subject with enormous respect. He usually addressed Kaufman as "Mr. Kaufman." For Kaufman was the professional professional, and a sleepless craftsman who believed that plays were not written but rewritten...
...began enticing his readers with the latest on what moom pitcher star was seen handholding what sweedee pie at El Morocco. As his following grew, so too did his impudence. Throughout the 1930s, the gang at Lindy's and housewives everywhere sniggered at such items as "Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poet, just bought a new set of store teeth...