Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home Free!, by Lanford Wilson. A poignant fairy-tale quality pervades this story of a brother and his incestuously pregnant sister and helps the play achieve an astonishingly tender tension between sickness and sweetness. The boy (Michael Warren Powell) and girl (Joanna Miles) live in a fantasy playroom of imaginary companions and real toys, such as a miniature Ferris wheel. The atmosphere has a suffocating intimacy, an airless immunity to reality that recalls Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, with its similarly incestuous relationship. Reality finally intrudes with cruel pathos as the girl's birth pangs become her death...
...Christian world." In 1958, he married a Muslim Sister named Betty Shabazz before a justice of the peace in Michigan. "An old hunchbacked white devil performed the wedding," Malcolm said later, "and all of the witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty was pregnant and the mother of four children: Daughter Attilah, named after the Hun; Daughter Quiblah, after Kublai Khan; Daughter Ilyasah, Arabic for Elijah; and Daughter Lamum-bah, named after the Congo's wild-eyed Patrice Lumumba...
...systern." Now Brando wanted to get their son, Christian Devi, 6, out of Anna's hands and was fighting her in a Los Angeles court for custody of the boy. Under crossexamination, Marlon readily admitted that both Anna and his second wife, Mexican Actress Movita, were pregnant when he married them, and that he also had a son by a Tahitian beauty whom he didn't marry. The judge decided that Marlon's methods were mere "shortcomings" compared to Anna's "reliance on drugs and alcohol," therefore awarded custody of the youngster to Brando. Cried Anna...
Last week Marilyn Horne was back on stage with Soprano Sutherland in the Boston Opera's production of Rossini's Semiramide. This time there was no overlooking her. For one thing, she was five months pregnant and singing the hero's role of Arsace, an officer in the Scythian army, complete with beard and free-flowing robes. For another, she sang magnificently...
...lightning can strike willy-nilly. Last year's initiates included an 84-year-old retired businessman from California (No. 8 iron, 110-yd. hole), a nine-year-old Little Leaguer from North Carolina (No. 3 iron, 157-yd. hole), and a Texas housewife who was eight months pregnant when she dubbed a No. 6-iron shot into the cup on a 125-yd. hole...