Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family, a series of almost Biblical length; its 3,256th and terminal episode was labeled Chapter 30 of Book 134. Contemporary TV soaps like As the World Turns and The Secret Storm are lineal descendants of the old radio shows. The pauses are still pregnant-but so are the new heroines. And much of the subject matter deserves an R rating. There were no married priests and no abortions in the afternoons of yore...
SUCCESS DOES come in the end, but too late: Both of his daughters are married and pregnant (not necessarily in that order--it "runs in the family") and his wife has deserted him. Alone once more, it is now that Littlechap realizes his mistake of loving only himself. And then magically, we are transported back into his original fantasy setting, the equivalent of Littlechap's "real" world. For as he explains, the most beautiful thing about a circle is that it has no end and no beginning: "'What's so important about that?' you might ask...well, at least...
...from one of the two tiny stores and that Isac and his brother, bakers and sons of a baker, made one morning. Dona Rosa tells you of her fifteen-year-old son who went to live with an aunt in another town and got a fourteen-year-old girl pregnant because "he had to sleep in the same room with her." They married and separated. "Divorce is too expensive...Children are a heavy burden. Each one brings fresh trouble. And each year there's another one. I've had thirteen." Dona Rosa is 43 and pregnant. She shows...
...prison images--birdcages, open temples with arabesque walls, etc. Doors are continually opening on the screen for no apparent reason other than to show us that transition is going on in Siddhartha's spiritual development. The director gives us a succession of gratuitous images which are supposed to be pregnant with meaning, but what we see is only a collection of boring objects...
...seeking food and redress, sweeping the settlers up in yet another external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside the blond and prosperous farmers. The worst of their savageries, the disembowelment of a pregnant settler, was cut from the film by an offended American distributor...