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...breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me." All three participants in this ritual are fully clothed. Offred knows that if a child is conceived and born healthy, not an Unbaby or a "shredder," the wife will raise it. She endures these ordeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repressions of a New Day the Handmaid's Tale | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...Thompson is skeptical. "I don't know if we would really bring more small law firms and pubic agencies if we subsidized them. It's not so much a matter of the money, but the fact that the smaller and recruit...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: Bucking the Corporate Trend? | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...alternative schools as an experimental response to sidespread parental dissatisfaction with the public schools. Traditional education--stressing conformity, arbittary discipline, and learning by rote had failed for many Progressive education, growing out of the social reflection that characterized the era, sought to do away with the centralized, bureaucratic, anonymous pubic school and replace it with a school whose role would be defined by the community, including the students, it served...

Author: By Jess Brevin, | Title: A Really Liberal Education | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

Moreover, Walker lied to his Georgia teammates and fans-the same people who made his success possible-by repeatedly denying the fact that he'd signed a contract with the Generals late last week. His pubic apology Wednesday, in this view, just doesn...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: He Took the Money-And Ran | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

Spot is for what he reported discovering in some women in the course of research into birth control methods in the 1940s: a patch of erectile tissue in the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone, that acts something like a second clitoris. G spot is for the new book about that odd finding, published amid considerable commercial hubbub: a first printing of 150,000 hardback copies by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and deals with six book clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: In Search of a Perfect G | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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