Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's the pain. Years later, when Rock was 25 years old and on the stand-up circuit, he turned the experience into a punch line. "Ain't nothing more horrifying than a bunch of poor white people," Rock joked in his act. "They blame n_______ for everything... 'Space shuttle blew up! Them damn n______, that's what...
...Rock, pain has turned to pleasure. He smiles as he recalls a day not too long ago when he was walking around a studio lot in Hollywood and ran into Will Smith. And then he ran into Chris Tucker. And then he looked in the papers and saw that Dr. Dolittle was the No. 1 film. "It's a good time to be a young, black comedian," says Rock, who is looking for a film to do with Tucker. "Of course, that's easy for me to say because I'm one of the people working...
...walking during the early stages of labor, which was the focus of last week's report. Many women find that it helps them to relax, to work through their contractions before the often tough job ahead. In addition, midwives have long believed that walking reduces the need for pain killers and Caesarean sections because it allows the birthing process to work with gravity...
...examined 1,067 moms-to-be with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full 99% of the women who walked said they'd like to do it again for their next delivery. "Walking gave the women more of a sense of control," Bloom says. "Since it didn't hurt either...
What's missing, alas, from Florence Harding is any real exploration of her emotional life beyond a diary entry that reads, "To me, love seems to have been a thing of tragedy." But perhaps that is all of her pain she'd want us to know...