Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks a fetus cannot move "purposefully," as Nathanson asserts, nor can it perceive danger; the cerebral cortex, which coordinates perception and thought, is not yet developed. As for the silent scream, says Johns Hopkins Neurobiologist David Bodian, doctors have no evidence that a twelve-week-old fetus can feel pain, though "there is a possibility of a reflex movement" in response to stimuli like surgical instruments. Hobbins suggests that the dramatic scream may have been a fetal yawn, because "the fetus spends lots of time with its mouth open." Indeed, he says, the gaping mouth in the blurry film...
...hour that sometimes resembles a celebrity talk show, Schuller speaks earnestly of the abiding desire for self-worth, of "every person's deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage this emotional hunger with a smorgasbord of rhyming slogans: "There's no gain without pain"; "It takes guts to leave the ruts." For Schuller, an acknowledgment of self-worth, more than a confession of sinfulness, is the path to God. Says he: "We can replace inferiority complexes with a new self-image, one with divine roots. God is my Father; I am somebody...
...fetal movements shown on the ultrasound are thus not reactions to perceptions of pain, aggression, or "imminent destruction," as the film's-narrator asserts. They are simple avoidance reactions, like the reflex of a knee when the doctor taps it. Contrary to the intentionally misleading implications of the film, there is no "silent scream...
...other Italian artist of the day had such mastery of gesture. Caravaggio was a minute observer of body language: how people move, slump, sit up, point and shrug; how they writhe in pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food...
...Japan for not opening more markets to U.S. firms. Missouri Republican John Danforth, who heads the Senate's International Trade Subcommittee, reflects a growing mood. Said he: "The U.S. has been a sort of benevolent chump. We should find some specific means of inflicting at least some economic pain on the Japanese." Even after the end of controls, Japanese automakers may find that the U.S. is not a very friendly market...