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Alejandra seems fated to go mad and to kill Fernando, the father whom she has tried to repudiate. With its hints of incest and its portrait of a doomed family hagridden by history, Alejandra's tale is South American gothic at its most feverish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South American Gothic | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...people who support a "Human Life Amendment" are anti-life. A young girl, whose future lies ahead of her, or a 40-year-old grandmother should not have to have her life destroyed because of rape or incest, nor should she be forbidden to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...entire legend: young Arthur's gaining Excalibur: Merlin's education of the young king: Arthur's courting of Guenevere: the establishment of Camelot: the love triangle of Arthur. Guenevere, and Lancelot: the search for the Holy Grail: the power struggle between Arthur and his half-brother/son (through incest) Mordred. Alas, the film stumbles between episodes, failing to connect the careful pattern of events coherently. The numerous battle scenes--exciting, if a bit gratuitously gory--always run too long. Even the tone of the film vacilates between tongue-in-cheek humor, and at other times, terrible solemnity. Perhaps, the scope...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Blood and Sex and Chivalry | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

Virginia. Republican Governor John Daton last week vetoed a hotly contested bill that would have provided funds for abortions in cases of rape, incest or gross fetal abnormality. The Governor felt the bill was too liberal. Lieutenant Governor Charles Robb, a probable Democratic nominee for Governor this year, had cast the tie-breaking vote in the state senate for the bill. Baptist Preacher Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, leader of the Moral Majority, called Robb's vote "shocking and unexpected" and vowed it would end Robb's chances of election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Abortion | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...choice side. ABC-Harris polls indicate that by 60% to 37% Americans approve of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. But National Opinion Research Center surveys show there is a sharp distinction to be made: an overwhelming majority -more than 80%-favor abortions in cases of rape and incest or when pregnancy is a threat to a woman's life. But only about 40% favor abortions for less compelling reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Abortion | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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