Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homans established that a fetus undergoes "distress" when the placenta, its connection to the mother, is separated from the uterus, and that under such distress a fetus might begin to inhale and exhale the amniotic fluid that surrounds it within the amniotic sac...
...become a turning-point in the trial, cross-examination indicated earlier this week. Homans seemed prepared to argue that Edelin took three to five minutes to perform what is usually a shorter operation, not because he was allowing a fetus to breathe and then suffocate, but because the amniotic sac which envelops the fetus had burst, drawing out the operation...
...miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from a half-hour film that dramatically shows the actual process of conception and the earliest stages of life...
Struggling to recover his balance, Richard Nixon last week stumbled into yet another Watergate morass. Now it was the mystery of the missing tapes. Conceded one of his closest legal advisers: "We've created a credibility cul-de-sac of such monstrous dimensions that even the most innocent transaction appears suspect...
Polanski has always fancied himself something of an absurdist, although his best films-such as Knife in the Water, Repulsion and Cul de Sac-have been more notable for good, slightly kinky melodrama. What? has more of the trappings of absurdist comedy. The girl, although apparently free to leave, remains a prisoner; nothing is explained, no one acts out of any clear motivation...