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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infant on the suburban doorstep of Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon). His wife Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern), goaded on by her folks and his, makes him work embarrassingly hard at producing an offspring -- all to help her fulfill her motherly instincts (Jake has a not too hilarious problem with his sperm count). But having been, at best, an ambivalent bridegroom (goodbye novel writing, hello advertising; goodbye sex as sport, hello sex as duty, with Chain Gang for scoring), he has an underdeveloped feeling for fatherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wedlock Blues SHE'S HAVING A BABY | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...proclaims that "greed is good, greed is right, greed works, greed will save the U.S.A." Listen to the art of the boss raider as he works the phones to spear a couple mil in two minutes flat: "Wait for it to head south, then we'll raise the sperm count . . . If it looks as good as on paper, we're in the kill zone . . . Dilute the son of a bitch. I want every orifice in his body flowing red . . . Lunch!? Are you joking? Lunch is for wimps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Season Of Flash And Greed | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...ovum drifting down a fallopian tube belonging to the Princess of Wales fuses with a royal sperm and becomes lodged in Her Highness' uterine lining. Nine months later an heir is born to the throne of the British Empire...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Windsor War | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...women are unable to bear children because their Fallopian tubes have been blocked or damaged, usually by sexually transmitted infections. Yet the risk of tubal infertility can easily be reduced. How? By the use of so-called barrier contraceptives -- diaphragms, cervical caps and condoms -- which bar the passage of sperm into the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blocks And Barriers | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...reality, this is a very typical problem, and not a cause for undue concern. Many men in prominent positions desire extramarital relationships, and if these relationships are sexual, then so be it. Indeed, excess buildup of sperm in high-powered politicians has been indicated as a causal factor in many pathological conditions, including inability to remember okaying appropriations for secret illegal operations...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Spring Sex Tips | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

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