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...went on in the idyllic Devon cottage to a court assembled to decide whether McKinney had a case to answer. McKinney claimed that she was trying to rekindle her affair with Anderson using techniques of seduction recommended by Alex Comfort, author of that redolent manual of the day, The Joy...
...hospital but plans to have her second--due in late August--at home. "Interventions that neither the mother nor father wish to occur are more likely when surrounded by people who view pregnancy as an illness or labor as inherently dangerous," she says. "I consider birth sacred and a joy, and I intend to birth my baby in a way that reflects that...
...will participate in the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, where they'll run and swim and jump their way to some 3,000 medals. Each of them will be searching for gold. Barring that, they'll begrudgingly take silver or bronze. For while outwardly they may profess joy in the spirit of athletic competition, inwardly they all desire the same thing: a hunk of metal around their neck...
...makes liberal use of fictionalizing devices - interior monologues, imagined conversations - that render it less reliable as a historical account, but help to capture the drama of Bikila's life. It's hard to read Rambali's well-paced description of the Rome race without a rush of excitement and joy...
...brook any suggestion that Anne Dunne was other than a brave soul who endured a myriad of hardships while at the female factory in the settlement of Parramatta, now a commercial center in western Sydney. Dunne eventually married a lifer named James Tompkins and experienced, Upfold speculates, times of joy in a land where she chose to live out her post-convict years. "In life, you've got to go forward," Upfold says...