Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...travel downtown and pay ten dollars when you can see the same thing in your living room for free? No Hard Feelings, rich with a cast of television veterans, reproduces most of the fatuousness of the 7:30 p.m. time slot, occasionally throwing in a few good jokes about pregnant women, inter-racial love affairs, and poorly pressed suits...
Scarlet serves Mother Wanda right by disobeying with stubborn chastity, then becoming pregnant the night she loses her virginity. With her friends, she constitutes a kind of neither-nor generation. Rebellious against their parents, rebellious against their children, they are rebellious, above all, against the men they off-and-on love, and yet they still seem unable to organize their lives without them. Weldon men are talkers rather than doers. The aesthetes end up in ad agencies, the back-to-nature idealists wind up turning a profit on battery-stimulated hens. Seldom, if ever, do they make decent lovers...
...fourth of the wives charged that their husbands had committed adultery-and many of the younger women had responded by taking lovers of their own. Why did many others remain faithful? "I haven't betrayed him because I am stupid," explained one. Said another: "I'm always pregnant, that...
...Writing for the majority -and aware of the potential impact of the decision-Justice Harry Blackmun laced his opinion with a precise set of guidelines. During the first three months of pregnancy, wrote Blackmun, "the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician." After the first trimester, a state may "regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health," for instance by requiring hospitalization. But to demand that a panel of doctors okay the abortion, said Blackmun, is an unconstitutional complication. Only after...
...moral fable in a timeless, tribal Africa, where spirits inhabit the trees, tom-toms breathe lightly under agile fingers and the dead are buried in the fields so they can blow life into the roots of the crops. Ancestors who tire of the underground may slip into a passing pregnant woman and be reborn...