Word: incest
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...because of legislatures' moral objections, but because the operation was so dangerous. By 1962, abortion in a hospital was generally considered safe, but states' Model Penal Codes permitted the operation only if the health of the mother or child was threatened, or in a case of rape or incest. Abortions were rewarded to women who were either ill or rich. Hospitals awarded abortions to those women with diseases that could harm development of the fetus, almost as if in compensation for their illness. Alternatively, women with time and money could fly to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico or other vacation spots...
...ostensible plot of Butterfly has to do with incest in the boondocks. Or rather the possibility of same, since things are finally worked so that no taboos are actually violated. But all of that is much too complicated and silly to go into with a straight face. The real suspense of the film derives from the troubles that Leading Lady Pia Zadora keeps having with her wardrobe. Sometimes it seems to have a will of its own and just starts sliding off her. On other occasions, when there is some feebly logical reason for her to shed it (taking...
Dunaway caroms onstage as a 14-year-old on roller skates and it may just be the larkiest moment of the poor girl's life. Orphaned all too soon, Frances Duffy is sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels...
Like Garp, the new book is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice. Unlike Garp, Hotel aggressively links realism with the tone and symbolism of fable. Imagine a fairy tale dealing explicitly with rape, incest, prostitution and terrorism. Imagine the Brothers Grimm without the dense mythological overlay...
...Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practised." One reads such things nowadays-collected at last in Nancy McPhee's Book of Insults-and imagines a whole world packed with high-strung terriers, poised to yip at the slightest noise...