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Word: pregnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging about her sophisticated life as a cashier in a movie theater. In truth, she is pregnant and needs to find a local boy who can be convinced that he is the father. Rev stops a bank robbery but, unfortunately, also a bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millvillers and Hornbeckers | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Isabella appears. The commercial is no longer silly, and Lancôme is getting its money's worth ($325,000 for 35 days a year, said to be the richest contract ever signed by a model). More than its money's worth, since she is six months pregnant. But no one seems troubled by that; if Cheryl Tiegs and Lauren Hutton established a few years ago that it is fine for models to be 30, Isabella's age now, Rossellini seems to have brushed away objections to pregnancy. The camera will simply dodge where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Model Woman. She Gets $9,000 a Day | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing. . . Knock-kneed, droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Heads and Tails | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...lectern, Mailer proves he is still a Roman candle of ideas, spinning off sparks, noise and smoke. He gives one class his grudging approval of abortion but not birth control. "Women's contraceptive instincts become confused," he says, and spins his theory that prostitutes do not get pregnant: "When a woman has sex with five to ten different men a night, the sperm from each man is battling against the other sperm. It's the competitiveness of the sperm. They're all killing each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Impish Iconoclast at 60 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...there are pads stashed away and pens and pencils inside pretty enameled boxes. When she is not working on jokes, she is thinking up TV and movie scripts. Though it received bad-to-middling reviews five years ago, Rabbit Test, her film comedy about the first man to become pregnant, is still returning profits. Now she is preparing to make a movie about television, Situation Comedy, which should blister the networks the way her fat jokes do Elizabeth Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barbs for the Queen (and Others) | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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