Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police, Lucrezia Gentile, a Brooklyn housewife, reported that her two-month-old son had been abducted, then confessed that she had drowned him in his bath. Reason: she could not stand his incessant crying. A year earlier, Michele Remington, a factory worker in Bennington, Vt., fatally shot her infant son with a .22-cal. handgun before unsuccessfully trying to kill herself. Kathleen Householder, of Rippon, W. Va., hit her two-week-old daughter in the head with a fist-size rock because she was "fussing"; Householder dumped the tiny body in a nearby river...
...years ago, Beverly Bartek of Lincoln, Neb., drowned her infant daughter in the kitchen sink two days after her physician told her that her moodiness and paranoia were the results of the baby blues. Angela Thompson had hallucinations after the birth of her first child, jumped off a bridge and was taken to a mental hospital. Still, when she became pregnant with her second child, she notes, "my doctor said, 'Just take it easy. I see no reason why it should happen again...
...genre weakened by formula and familiarity, Lucas has brought little new, just a reprise of his Star Wars plot and characters in sylvan gear. His Luke Skywalker is Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a dwarf in a community of dwarfs, a young farmer put in charge of the infant who is destined to deliver his land from the terrible rule of Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). On his journey to Castle Nockmaar, he acquires a few worthy friends and foes: an outlaw warrior in the Han Solo mold (Val Kilmer), a dashing knight with Lando Calrissian's righteous swagger (Gavan O'Herlihy...
...able to become pregnant. But fertility drugs or surgery can produce three or four, sometimes even eight or nine, fetuses. Not only does such a pregnancy threaten the mother's health, but each extra fetus increases the risk of miscarriage or premature birth, which can cause an infant's death or irreparable brain damage. In a widely publicized 1985 case, Californian Patti Frustaci gave birth prematurely to septuplets; only three survived...
...easy to see why. Freud's theories of dreams as wish fulfillments, of infant sexuality and Oedipal rage, had the power of revelation. They could not (and still cannot) be proved by laboratory experiment, but their palpable rightness can be sensed in mythology, legend and archaeology. Not surprisingly, Freud's famous office at Berggasse 19 was filled with antiquities from Egypt and classical Greece...