Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michigan, Surrogate Mother Judy Stiver agreed to be artificially inseminated by Alexander Malahoff for $10,000. When the baby was born last year, it turned out to be microcephalic and mentally retarded. Malahoff insisted on blood tests that might show he was not the father. As a macabre touch, these test results were announced on Phil Donahue's TV show. They disclosed that Malahoff was indeed not the father; Stiver had had sexual intercourse with her husband at about the same time as the insemination. Now the baby is in the custody of the Stivers, and both sides...
...where some guidelines seem sorely needed. Congressman Gore, a Tennessean with four children aged eleven, seven, five and two, is keenly aware of the mixed feelings that the new technologies can arouse. Says he: "There is something unnatural, even violent, about a procedure that takes a newborn from its mother's arms and gives it to another by virtue of a contract. But I don't think I'm in favor of outlawing it. The touching search for children may justify a great many things that make others of us who are more fortunate uncomfortable...
...endless discipline and labor, and Iglesias is rarely satisfied. "He always wants more-more love, more houses, more records, more success," says Martinez. His marriage of eight years was annulled in 1979, and although he remains devoted to his three children, who live most of the time with their mother in Spain, he has very little else in his life but singing, rehearsing and singing some more. He has four houses scattered around the world, but his real home is a Mystère-Falcon 20, which jets him from gig to gig. "Everything has to be quick for Julio...
Tennessee Williams imitates a monologue in one of his own plays as he spins out florid, ribald fantasias on his family life. His mother, Miss Edwina, screamed whenever she had sex with his father and believed that the rattle of garbage cans in St. Louis was a signal for a black uprising. At 94 she changed her name to Edwin and imagined that a horse had moved into her room: "She'd always wanted a horse as a child. And now that she finally had one, she didn't like...
...some way, candidates like Ferraro unwittingly invite this kind of treatment. She did not get to where she is by dint of a cause, ideology or even issue. Ferraro got to where she is because of who she is: daughter of poor immigrants, teacher, lawyer, mother, prosecutor-political assets she is not shy to exploit. She claims these to be the source of her values, and it was these values and those sources that she displayed so prominently in her acceptance speech in San Francisco. They are, in fact, the only discernible theme of her campaign...