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...argue, and stay healthy and strong well into their 70s and 80s. Besides, when an elderly man fathers a child--Strom Thurmond or Tony Randall, to name just two recent examples--many applaud his virility. When an older woman bears a child, she is seen as some sort of freak. Yet sexist as it may seem, most experts agree that the mother is usually the more crucial parent...
...multiple birth in the world, media attention is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. In an open letter to TIME, three of the Dionne quintuplets ? whom the Canadian state put on display in "Quintland" for tourists back in the Depression-ridden ?30s ? warn of the potential freak show to come. "To those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children," they write, "we say beware...
Every time I look in the mirror, I freak out. Recently, I can't stand the way I look. I'm not depressed; I just don't understand why I can't dress well or look good at all anymore. Help...
...invent new synonyms for epic and powerful. These efforts--putting a serious premium on thesauruses nation wide--were sparked by the appearance of Don Dellio's Underworld. In that monster tome Dellio juggles the stories of multiple historic and non-historic characters, all the while mining the existential freak-show of the later 20th century for all its tragic, ironic and surreal material...
...going Hollywood anytime soon; Los Angeles spooks her. "I don't have the legs or the body," she says. "When I went there, I always felt to be the freak." But if there's any justice, she may have to go again: to sit in an aisle seat on Oscar night. A nomination for The Wings of the Dove might bring to that thoughtful, seductive face the least complicated smile it has ever worn...