Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a brutal heat wave, Billygate, Iran and other insanities, there is nothing so refreshing as a tad of honest lust, greed, incest and vicious moneygrubbing à la Dallas [Aug. 11]. J.R. Ewing has restored my faith in escapist...
...gone much further and enacted the Hyde Amendment, named after Henry Hyde, a Republican Congressman from Illinois. In its latest form it forbids federal funding for any abortions, except those necessary to save a woman's life or those performed on victims of promptly reported rape or incest. Last January, New York Federal District Court Judge John Dooling found the Hyde Amendment unconstitutional. Since the Federal Government helps states pay for almost all other medical services required by the poor, he reasoned in part, it cannot refuse to pay for abortions...
...deal that went on at home and at large; there were reasons for confidentiality between doctor and patient. But the variety of intimate matters now bandied about is without apparent limits. On talk shows like Phil Donahue's, ordinary people regularly recount stories of emotional disturbance, marital discord, incest. Men chat about their vasectomies, women about their hysterectomies. The spectacle of Lyndon B. Johnson flashing his surgical scar to the world, so vulgar at the time, seems comparatively genteel in retrospect...
...were concerned, the Kings had dropped from sight until Cynthia, 21, showed up at the police station last October and complained that for ten years her father had been forcing her to have sex with him. She told the officers that she had finally decided to file charges of incest against him at the urging of a friend, Stanley Sinclair, 20, son of a Methodist minister. The following month Sinclair was stabbed to death in Houston. King, who was scheduled to go on trial for incest last week, asked several townspeople who happened to be members of the First Baptist...
...MOST PREVELENT self-consciousness is King's own. He word-drops and name-drops, carrying on about "the fundamental valorization of difference and hierarchy" or "the exogamous injunction" of incest. If anything is new about King's book, it's his word choice, not his ideas. He hails the Renaissance writers for trying to "demystify" their heritage, then clouds the issues himself with his convoluted vocabulary...