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Because she was 41 when she became pregnant and thus ran a higher risk of complications than younger women, Rosa Skinner, a housewife in San Mateo, Calif., was sent by her obstetrician to the prenatal diagnosis clinic of the University of California-San Francisco. Ultrasound scans showed that she was bearing twins, a boy and a girl. At 28 weeks the female fetus seemed normal, but the male's kidneys and bladder were swollen with fluid backed up in the urinary tract...
...will show at the Orson Welles for months. It is that type of film--unambitious, unchallenging, very pretty and quite small. Though it succeeds nicely, it puts on few airs, simply because it has no cause to. Designed as a vehicle for Simone Signoret (best known recently for Madame Rosa); this is the story of an aging spinster who lives with, and cares for, her wheelchair-bound brother, Gilles. Grouchy, though affectionate toward each other, their life seems as cold and sterile as the craggy Brittany coastline that Gilles (Jean Rochefort) perpetually watches through his telescope...
...such ambitious undertakings were hard to fit into their 70-hour, seven-day weeks. Explains David: "We are journalists, and the business end of it was taking up too much time." David will become a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner (circ.154,000), while Cathy teaches journalism at Santa Rosa Junior College. Neither expects to run a paper again, but they have no regrets. Says he: "It's been the best six years of my life...
...official poverty line for the area ($7,412 for a family of four). They are committing suicide at seven times the average rate in the U.S., and the leading cause of death among them is homicide. Most of the immigrants speak little English, and some 50% are unemployed. Says Rosa Rodriquez Orama, 30, who lives with her husband in the bathroom of a Miami gas station: "We were poor in Cuba, but at least I had more comforts than this. I made a mistake in coming...
Sometimes a dramatist offers one special clue as to his intent, and British Playwright Davies seems to do that when he has Rose quote a line from the German socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg: "It's in the tiny domestic struggles of individual people as they grope towards self-realization that we can most truly discern the great movements of society." The play's title may be an oblique salute to Rosa...