Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specifics of the case were that Mrs. Thomas became pregnant shortly after her Marine husband left for over seas duty. Her husband, nonetheless, incorrectly believed that the child was his. Two nights after she brought her new son home from the hospital, the baby was discovered with horrible burns in his mouth. His gums had been eaten away by an unknown "caustic solution," and so had his larynx and lungs. After 16 days in the hospital, he died. Who would have killed him except his mother? asked the prosecution; her motive was that she was afraid her hus band would...
Suzy soon gets an acrid whiff of reality when a new-found girl friend at the factory finds herself pregnant. The girl nearly dies at the hands of a drunken abortionist, then recovers and gets engaged to the boy responsible for her trouble. The night of their engagement party, he is knocked off his motorcycle by a lorry and dies in the street; a tragedy has its echo in Kendall's life when her own lover steals a car for their vacation and gets sent down for six months. "I'd much rather have taken...
...ALWIN NIKOLAIS, 56, is a Flipped-Out, plugged into a high-voltage fantasy world where stage and sound effect share equal billing with the dancers. In Vaudeville of the Elements, figures in bulging fluorescent balloons waddle and contract like pregnant accordians. One dancer wrestles with a space-age cobweb. Others, with illuminated lampshades on their hands and feet, do a close-order drill. Now the dancers are drunken caterpillars, now they are partnering their own distorted shadows. All the while, nine speakers ringing the auditorium sizzle, crackle and explode with electronic music; twelve slide projectors and 30 spots splash colors...
Frazer Lively, as Marie Jeanne, the doyenne of the kitchen, gives the appearance of power even if she never quite realizes it in practice. Amy Sue Allen, the pregnant maid, projects her pain well--so well, in fact, that her expressiveness sometimes drowns out comprehensibility...
...most recent Hollywood version, The Bible, John Huston pictured it as a pregnant sampan. Now, an Israeli with sound credentials has produced perhaps the most logical rendition of Noah's ark to date. Last week in Jerusalem's Hechal Shlomo (Solomon's Palace), the seat of Israel's Chief Rabbinate, the model went on display-and it looked totally different from earlier versions...