Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finds More at a coming-out party. He is a history teacher, and the debutante is a 16-year-old pupil of his, seven months pregnant by him. It is virtually impossible to get this fact and More's marriage proposal across to the girl's brain-drained upper-class parents. Mother (Patricia Routledge) has her dress on backward so that it can be seen better when she is dancing, and her hair seems to be on backward too. When Father (Bayliss) grasps the bad news, he trots to the phone and demands a tuition refund, refusing...
...often prefer middle-aged women because they are less likely than younger married women to be kept away by a child with the mumps or some other domestic crisis. At the same time, much of the old prejudice against hiring younger women-for fear that they will marry, become pregnant and quit-has eased with the rise in use of the birth-control pill. "We never would have done this before the pill," says a Midwestern publisher who now hires mostly women...
...Antoine, Clare taps out her surrender and Charles shrewdly retreats. Lucile leaves Charles for her new lover and makes an earnest effort to mend her indolent ways, but holding a job and living in one room are too boring a price to pay for love. When she gets pregnant, it is Charles who supplies the abortion fee; and when she quits her struggle for an independent life, it is Charles who gives her back...
...Swimmer), played the Downstairs four times in one year, and now, an indeterminate 30, has upstaired her income to six figures. She has written a movie for United Artists called, almost inevitably, How Are We Feeling Today. But most of all, Joan wants a child. "When I'm pregnant," she says, "think of the material I'll have...
...London slums where she shares a flat with a sluttish violinist, Georgy discovers that sex is mostly a spectator sport. "You just missed being beautiful," mocks her roommate's modcap beau (Alan Bates). When the violinist gets pregnant, the mod marries her, and Georgy sticks around to cook, clean, clown, care for the baby, and light the slow-burning fires of infidelity. The emergence of Georgy is essentially a souped-up Cinderella tale, sometimes preposterous, always sentimental, but occasionally human and hilarious too. Plumpish birds who nest alone on Saturday nights will cherish its pathos, and others will respect...