Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard "right-to-life" group last night sponsored the showing of the controversial film "Silent Scream" to a politically mixed...
...silent scream" of the title comes from a fetus in the womb--shown by an "ultrasound," computer generated picture--whose mouth opens as a doctor conducts probes necessary for an abortion. Presumably, the fetus reacts to perceived or potential pain...
...will scream again, as it happens, by this same hut, near the end of her story; Justin's creator endows memory with intricate patterns of repetition. Between these two outbursts, the girl finds herself "enchanted" and "bewitched" by the woman she has stumbled across. Ursula DeVane, 44, lives in a stone house her ancestors put up two centuries earlier; she shares the place with her younger brother Julian, a melancholy piano teacher whom ^ Ursula is determined to force into fulfilling his early promise as a concert performer. To this end, she has sacrificed her own career as an actress...
Were we unsophisticated enough to cry and scream...
Portions of The Silent Scream aired on network news shows last week. "Never have so many millions of Americans seen such a graphic representation of a baby being ripped apart," said Congressman Robert Dornan, an antiabortion Republican from California. "The other side is now on the defensive." Admitted Nanette Falkenberg of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "I think we're in for some hard times...