Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prudish euphemism "teenage pregnancy" is symptomatic of the New Rhetoric. Nowhere--in speeches, in debate, in media--do we bring ourselves to say it. These are not 14-year-old women; they are pregnant girls. As Smeal put it, "the only time a woman is called a woman is when she's pregnant." Why is "pregnant girl" an unspeakable contradiction in terms for us? It belies what our culture sees as the essence of being a woman: getting pregnant...
...classroom (as if no prayer in public schools automatically expunged God from the minds of students the minute they enter classrooms.) He pledged similarly to heal "the single wound on the national conscience" by ending legalized abortion. Nothing was said to those children or those thousands of pregnant teenagers whose private concerns have no place in Reagan's public policy...
...sketching primer in his aunt's library and then hones his skills by sketching in the mortuary. Eventually he ends up in England, gets slightly involved in the spy game and falls in love with his cousin who is really in love with a gambling revolutionary. She gets pregnant; he marries her; she abandons him and child; he meets his painting mentor who takes him to Germany to engage in an obscure and slightly unethical anti-Nazi plot; he makes his reputation as an art critic by revealing a forgery...
...staging to highlight the interdependency of these voices- to reiterate that they are not each a character, but part of one. They jump in on each other's lines, finishing thoughts and emphasizing the taunting echoes that crescendo in Eliot's memory. Overdone, though, are the long, pregnant glances directed at the voice of the poet, that must be taken by the three others before each exit...
Much of the blocking seemed excessive even for comedy. Why did Cronin's wife shuffle so strangely, even if she was pregnant? And why did Catherine Harris, who was doing prudery quite well, have to march ten feet and deliver the same Victorian brush-off every time an advance was made to her? The slapstick trip-ups between Cronin and Hogan looked under-rehearsed. In fact, most of the movements in Act 2 looked unrehearsed...