Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal court-room in Oxford, Mississippi. There, on a sticky August day, three lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund had brought county officials to trial in a school desegregation case. First on the witness stand was Mrs. Lee Dora Collins, mother of nine and obviously pregnant, in her early thirties, she was well-built and looked strong. She unfolded her story without hesitation...
...four sets of marked footprints (red for fire, blue for water, yellow for air and green for earth), he triggers photoelectric cells that set in motion a rapid-fire sequence of images, lights and sounds. Nature lovers (green) find themselves contemplating a skeleton emerging from a pregnant woman, a wheat field, a graveyard. "People become part of the art object," Martin explains. "They score it. They compose it. I supply the format...
...Tarbox of Foxy Whitman and her husband Ken, a biochemist preoccupied with his own second-rateness. Alone of the women, Foxy seems unafraid of what Freddy calls "the smell and hurt of love"; seven years of childless boredom with Ken have made her vulnerable. Now, though she is pregnant, she and Piet Hanema fall in love, an old-fashioned and banal assertion of life that brings down on them and the tribe the old-fashioned and banal tribulations of middle-class guilt, entrapment and helplessness...
After the Whitman baby is born, Foxy gets pregnant by Piet. In panic, they turn to Freddy Thorne for help in finding an abortionist. There follows a rather absurd turn of plot that seems straight out of 19th century melodrama. All but twirling his mustachios, Freddy agrees-in return for a night alone with Piet's wife Angela, the one woman in the tribe who has never entered the communal bed. Implausibly, Angela consents. One night in a ski lodge, after the Thornes and the Hanemas have had too much to drink, Angela suddenly says, "Well, is this...
...island off the coast of Sweden live a cadaverous, obsessed painter (Max von Sydow) and his pregnant wife (Liv Ullman). The time is summer, and Von Sydow is slowly going mad. He is terrified by demons, people whom he sees and fears. One is a homosexual, another a 216-year-old woman who keeps threatening to take off her hat-and her face. Gradually infected with her husband's aberrations, Ullman looks up from her yard one day and sees the ancient crone. Soon the artist and his wife are invited to a haunted castle where the Draculalike Baron...