Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have your liver, then?") They mesh oddly with the more detached, sardonic skits which are this film's major departure from previous technique. The knack for inspired nonsense remains--no other sensibility could mock Catholicism through the spectacle of rows of nuns. Busby-Berkeley-style, caroling that "Every sperm is sacred." But the addition of an explicit theme quiets the ridiculous proceedings somewhat, leading the film to a previously avoided mass-appeal glossiness. Distributed through Universal Pictures, Meaning of Life is the first Python film wholly backed by a major concern and released smack into the American commercial mainstream...
Inserted any time up to 16 hours before intercourse, the sponge releases its spermicide gradually, killing and absorbing sperm before they can reach the cervix. Unlike the diaphragm, the device-called Today-stays effective for 24 hours (hence the name) regardless of how many times the user has intercourse, and there is said to be nothing messy or awkward about it. A small polyester loop attached to the sponge makes removal easy. Vorhauer, the president of V.L.I., expects to start selling the contraceptives this fall, at about $1 apiece...
...list for a new ark: 800,000 insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize the young: crocodiles swallow stones to aid digestion; giraffes give birth standing up; the sperm whale can hold its breath for an hour. No illustration is more comically apropos than the one of St. Nicholas pulled by a sole reindeer. As wolves pursue his sleigh, Santa diverts them by tossing wrapped packages overboard. After all, even predators deserve happy holidays...
Donald Zeh. the manager of the sperm bank which is a branch of Xytex Corp., attributes the run on his bank to easy money. Zeh said the bank pays donors $20 each, and students could make a donation every two days...
...find we're getting a pretty good individual who has no other way of getting extra money," he says. Xytex ships the sperm as far away as Alaska, where it's used for artificial insemination...