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...life feminist groups have cleverly managed to mask these damaging assumptions by appropriating the discourse of modern pro-choice feminism. The slogan “women deserve better choices than abortion” inundates the FFL’s Web site, along with an exhortation to pregnant women: “Abortion is not the only way out: you have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties, and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed...
...This is when the Avenger grabbed his cape, mask and truncheon and got involved. Could we get Spirit at least to acknowledge Carol's plight or, dare we dream, reimburse her for the flight-change fees or the hotel bill? Would justice be served for Carol and all the other nameless fliers who had suffered before...
...alone here, alone again with The Stable Boy.The cool stale air, the marble floors, the stone balustrades, the gilt frames, Filippo—all but The Stable Boy dissolved into a ripe sun, a voluptuous ribbon of billowing moor, a stable floor strewn with hay that could not mask the brutal hardness of wood. She felt the splinters scraping her tender back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty as if the painted figure before her were not oils hardened into ridges upon a canvas, but flesh equally hardened...
...Marguerite Simon sat on her front porch on Egania Street in the Ninth Ward. Spread out on the bushes along the path to the front door of her small home was an American flag, drying in the sun. The tiny, small-boned woman wearing rubber boots and a paper mask, had smoothed out the crumpled, wet flag that had draped her late husband's coffin...
...foreground, each new face is rendered with less and less detail. Characters of significance to the novel exist only insofar as Marcus can remember them (read: barely); Roth instead relies on the intensity of Marcus’s reactions and the brevity of the novel at large to mask their flatness. There is something to be said for the fact that Marcus tells his story at 19. Despite his intelligence, it can hardly be asked that he recall people and places and events with the omniscience of Roth himself, and Roth has effectively illustrated the consciousness interrupted. But the recounting...