Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ignores acting. The North House resident has appeared in Candide, School for Wives, the Gilbert and Sullivan production of Iolanthe. She has also directed an eclectic group of plays, from Peter Pan to the medieval mystery play The Second Shepherd's Play to her own Epiphany and The Unsupervised Infant...
...Union Station, where Ness and Stone must take a key witness from the Mob's protective custody. Into their stakeout blunders a mother maneuvering a baby carriage up a staircase. What delirious conflict between Ness the lawman and Ness the family man, as he tries to protect the infant and simultaneously conduct a shoot-out. What wild comedy in this conflict between duty and humanity. And De Palma ices the cake by shooting the scene as a parody of Eisenstein's Odessa Steps sequence from Potemkin...
...little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus on some profound ethical dilemmas. To whom, for example, does a child of surrogate birth really belong? Should a malformed fetus or infant (or any other patient in extremis) live or die? Who will make these decisions? And, more broadly, does ultimate moral authority lie with institutions such as church and state to codify and impose? Or, in a free society, are these matters of private conscience, with final choice belonging to the individual...
...demonstrate the strength and vitality merely by producing better automobiles and supercomputers. If we mean to live up to our ideals and set an example that others will wish to follow, we must also be competitive with the most advanced nations in combating such social afflictions as poverty, homelessness, infant mortality, adult illiteracy, and violent crime...
...national average infant mortality rate is 10.6 deaths per 1000, although the figure is slightly higher for ethnic minorities...