Word: mother
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Bush calls abortions "killings," and supports a constitutional amendment that would prohibit abortions except in cases of rape or incest or when the mother's life is endangered. If elected, he said he would punish those who administer the abortions...
FRANK ZAPPA: GUITAR (Rykodisc). The thinking man's mother of invention in a double album of riffs that are sure to rile. In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky, anyone...
...guideline most obstetricians have followed since World War I. By the mid-1980s, 1 baby out of every 4 born in the U.S. was delivered by caesarean, making the U.S. the world leader in surgical deliveries. In 1987 an estimated 35% of the procedures were done only because the mother had previously delivered by C-section. Last week the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists officially declared new guidelines on caesareans for the first time in 70 years. Its recommendation: doctors should encourage mothers who have had a C-section to have a normal vaginal birth unless there is definite...
...film is based on the best-selling novel by Sue Miller, and in many ways it outdoes the book. The characters in the movie are far more appealing than those in the novel. Watching them evokes sympathy, while reading about them provokes mainly dislike. As divorced mother Anna Dunlap, Diane Keaton is likeable and unpretentious. When she meets Leo, her lover-to-be, in a laundromat, the scene is free from the air of sleaze that surrounds it in the book...
...test of goodness here isn't the laughter, tears or shock that you feel during the film--it's the questions that stay with you long after you've left. The Good Mother poses many of these, from how a mother can choose between her lover and her daughter, to what constitutes sexual morality and molestation. These issues remain long after you've left the popcorned seats behind--proof that The Good Mother is a film not easily forgotten. It may even make...