Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven of the tales in Fast Lanes, however, sort through the bric-a-brac of unmade lives: "It was September of 1974, most of us would leave town in a few weeks, and I had been recently pregnant. Some of us were going to Belize to survive an earthquake. Some of us were going to California . . . My lover, the carpenter, was going to Nicaragua on a house-building deal that would never materialize. We'd had passport photos taken together; he would use his passport in the company of someone else and I would lose mine somewhere in Arizona...
...classics as It's a Wonderful Life and Casablanca, calling the result "cheesy, artificial symbols of one society's greed." Allen was equally plainspoken about how he felt on becoming a father for the first time. The auteur, 51, said that his longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow, 42, had become pregnant "by accident" and that he has no plans to marry or move in with the actress, who already has eight children of her own. "I think I'll be profoundly wise and generous, liberal, understanding," he deadpanned. "I'd be surprised if I'd be less than perfect...
...black males, whose unemployment rate is more than double that of their white counterparts, and it leads to other social problems. Because there are only 60 or so stably employed marriageable men for every 100 women in numerous ghettos, black females often elect not to marry if they become pregnant...
What she does not take into account is that sudden surge of delight in the middle of the night that every pregnant woman knows when the baby swivels, or the depression brought on by the puffiness in her face, or any of the temperamental swings that arc throughout the pregnancy. She does not take her dreams or reveries into account, her imagining what the baby will look like or grow up to be. Most acutely, she fails to anticipate that onrush of inexpressible satisfaction when the baby is laid across her breast in the delivery room. For all such moments...
...considerably higher in such cities as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Washington than in regions relatively untouched by the disease. "A physician in North Dakota might say, 'There is no risk here,' " says Dr. Harold Jaffe of the CDC. "But if there were a pregnant woman in New York who received a lot of blood in 1984, then a physician might recommend that she be tested...