Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other patients have rushed to the altar, returned to heavy drinking or started gambling wildly. One Manhattan analyst recalls that over the years, three of his patients have unexpectedly become pregnant in August. Admits the doctor: "I am the fantasy father of all three...
...Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is provocative but tantalizingly incomplete. The Hermitage has, for instance, 23 Rembrandts, and Hammer & Co. managed to extract just two, painted some 20 years apart. One is a tender portrait of Rembrandt's young bride Saskia, resting her hand on her presumptively pregnant belly; the other is a magnificent, hauntingly evocative biblical work painted when intimations of mortality obsessed the artist. There is a marvelous Chardin that Catherine herself commissioned to depict the "Attributes of the Arts." There is an exquisite early Gainsborough that looks ahead to his immense popularity as "face-painter...
Dawdle and Mope. Away from the hunt, they also stand and wait. And wait. The novel contains enough pregnant pauses to fuel a year of TV soaps: "considerable," "sizable," "baffled," "stupefied" waits. But then, there seems to be no reason to hurry. Tended by a small army of admiring blacks, the Mayfields and Kendals have nothing much to do except dawdle and mope. "I am 55 years old this month," says Forrest at one point. "Never say 'Time flies'; it has seemed like forever...
...idea of the pitch of the land. It was impractical, I replied, Kids would probably chuck pennies down on the cars--like from on top of the Empire State Building--causing certain havoc. Fred agreed and abandoned his scheme, but the further we drove, the more the language seemed pregnant with his notion. The road grew from the soil, was entrenched in it and ever spawned by it. The countryside was a vast shoulder to run on to when fatigue became insistent, and the miles only brought darkness and more miles and heavy air and weighted silences til finally...
Doctors still have not found out how alcohol leads to the defects, which in extreme cases can be fatal. But they have seen enough victims of the syndrome to justify warning prospective mothers to stop drinking heavily if they plan to become pregnant, and to consider having abortions if they become pregnant while addicted to alcohol...