Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor. She runs a worn track to the front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband...
...girl has more cunning, the woman more spirit, and in both instances Bergman obviously relishes the idea of feminine superiority. His actors, as usual, are excellent. And his direction of the camera is inspired-the long, slow opening scene in the photography studio, several minutes of wordless but pregnant silence, is a wonderful set piece of visual exposition. Bergman has said more important things than he says in this picture, but he has seldom said anything in a more vigorous and suitable style...
...somewhat skeptical of Reader Hakim Khan's unscientific method of birth control [May 9]. However, after having caught a frog, spat in its face thrice, and having left it where I found it, I find that I am not pregnant...
...animal high spirits sets the tone for the whole story, as seen through the eyes of Paolino di Alba, a precocious 13-year-old. To Paolino, poverty is spelled ATLAS and HERCULES, the words on the cement bags his mother uses for diapers. Mama is patient, pious, and always pregnant. Papa is a bricklayer and a sport who feels a cut above the other paesanos. He flaunts a blonde, green-eyed "American" mistress named Delia with whom he wins dance contests at the local vaudeville palace...
...success, only to discover that Africans have found an unsuspected use for their product. Parker, which dominates the West African ink market, recently noted that its sales had rocketed and retailers were asking for gallon bottles. Parker finally discovered that its popularity was due to a thirst for education: pregnant mothers were drinking ink in the hope that their children would be born knowing how to write. Other companies have found shoe polish used as face cream, soap as fish bait, hair cream as sandwich spread...