Word: speculum
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...Speculum Linoleum starring Jane Starkman, violin, Steven Drury, piano, Susan Crain, flute, David Schulemberg, keyboard, and Doug Davis, clarinet appear in concert. Dunster House Library...
Frankfort asserts that through self-help clinics and self-examination with a speculum and mirror, women can begin to regain one kind of control of their bodies...
...were actually addicts who had to have "a maintenance dose of intimacy." Physical contact, she decided, could be a very effective way of avoiding emotional contact. Did Dr. William Schutz, author of Joy, really think he was increasing intimacy in a group by issuing each man a gynecological speculum and inviting him to examine his partner's vagina? And what was really in the mind of Paul Bindrim, an advocate of nude marathons, when he spread a young woman's legs wide apart and commanded her to tell Katy all the four-letter functions that take place...
Several months later, Marston ordered two manuscripts from a London dealer, one of which was a modestly priced portion of the Speculum Historiale (Mirror of History) compiled by Vincent of Beauvais, the famed encyclopedist of the Middle Ages. When the Speculum manuscript arrived, it was in such an attractive 15th century binding that Dealer Witten asked to examine it. That night Witten telephoned Marston in great excitement. The Speculum manuscript was the key to the puzzle of the Vinland map and the text of the Carpini mission, which was later to be called "the Tartar Relation." The manuscript was written...
...good move. If not, it was a needless loss of one of the most profitable cash crops in history. Salable slaves were continually trying to starve themselves to death too. But for this at least, civilized man's ingenuity had a remedy-a caliperlike instrument called a speculum oris (i.e., mouth opener). Its pointed shaft was hammered between the teeth of the recalcitrant black, then its wings spread to pull open...