Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt to meet each of her objections. During one of their recurring fights, he has to resist the impulse to strike her, and then the truth reaches him too. Throwing the word "coward" at him, Marie, pregnant again, sets out to visit an abortionist and finally a lawyer. Strangers is a grim little book but an uncompromisingly honest one. Author Memmi confines himself to a careful, patient piling up of telling detail and harsh, spare dialogue that conveys its own message: love, intelligence and good will...
...staged but poorly written suicide scene, young Rutland's speech alternates between teen-age hipness and Southern degeneracy. Rutland eyes Sandy Dennis (playing Millicent Bishop, soon to be a corpse) lecherously and leers, "We gone take it from the top." When Millie blurts out the news that she is pregnant, Rutland reacts all over the place: he babbles to himself, "Millie, Millicent, Millicentus..." He declares, "There is no faith except deep knee bends." He runs off the stage, screaming "Alarm! Alarm!" He sneers, "Your inside wouldn't hold anything of mine." He taunts, "I'll lend you a sweat shirt...
...oldtime physician, estimate that she is 7½ months pregnant. She She wears the voluminous maternity dress of that day, but pregnant ladies then rarely so displayed themselves. She also carries, appropriately, a sheaf of wheat and I had thought also a shuttle of wool...
...days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction, the two British-educated leaders walked in the pine-fringed garden and delicately explored their differences. It was, said an aide, a "conversation by suggestion, by implication, by pregnant pause, by meaningful silence." Before each session. President Ayub presented his guest with a new rose or a sprig of garden phlox for his buttonhole...
...cuckolded. Every so often the author introduces another character and halts all action for a couple of chapters while she tells how he achieved his present wretchedness. The measure of how feeble are the author's efforts is that the major shockers concern a servant girl who becomes pregnant, a woman who bears a Mongolian idiot, and a young man who will not admit that he is a homosexual. Novelist Metalious shows herself to be a woman of taste in telling this last episode; her custom is to describe heterosexual claspings in considerable detail, but after the smoldering line...