Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled last week that attorneys for a Harvard professor and his wife will have to wait until the trial next month to get detailed information about anatomically correct dolls used to elicit allegations of sexual abuse from the couple's grandchildren...
...need to validate her own victimizations" may have influenced the children, Lindahl said. She characterized the mother's state of mind with regard to sexual abuse as one of "hypervigilance" and "obsessive concern...
There has always been a feminist subtext to Wasserstein's plays, even in her earlier work when she relied on Jewish-mother jokes and collegiate sexual confusions for laughs. Her first success, Uncommon Women and Others, depicted a reunion of Mount Holyoke College alumnae six years after they have left the campus to make their way in the working world. The 1977 off-Broadway cast included Glenn Close, Jill Eikenberry and Swoosie Kurtz. Her 1983 hit comedy, Isn't It Romantic, which ran for two years off-Broadway, is a thinly veiled tale of Wasserstein's relations with...
Doctors have long known about other risk factors for cervical cancer, including sexual activity at an early age and sex with multiple partners. And they have implicated some types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts, as the probable culprit. The University of Utah researchers, however, could only speculate about a possible mechanism by which smoking may cause cervical cancer. Harmful components of cigarette smoke, they suggest, may travel through the blood into the tissues of the cervix and somehow activate the virus...
...fault is not entirely Janowitz's. Her only hope was to find a director who could either respond avidly to the sexual and creative energies of the avant-garde scene or take a satirical cudgel to it. Instead, she drew distant, enervated James Ivory (A Room with a View, Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), who never seems to engage fully with any subject he has tackled and who has never been more fastidiously withdrawn than he is here. In this case, however, audiences will be well advised to follow his example...