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...University of Southern California impregnated six of seven postmenopausal women, ages 40 to 44, using eggs that were taken from younger women and fertilized with sperm from the older women's husbands. Four of these prematurely menopausal women gave birth to healthy offspring, one miscarried, and one had a stillborn baby -- an outcome that Sauer said would have been considered normal with six younger women...
Unlike Beaver, their only son, Skippy (David Javerbaum), passes his childhood largely ignored by his self-absorbed parents. Ironically, he is the only child of a mother who claims to want a large, fairytale family. But her dreams turn nightmarish as she has stillborn child after stillborn child. With the loss of each, Bette (Maile Meloy) retreats further into a fantasy world populated by the characters of Pooh's Corner. As she becomes more and more infantile in her blind desire to have children, Boo (Woody Hill) becomes increasingly estranged from her. He eventually finds solace in drink, and Bette...
...being fought on the sidewalks of New York, not in the ledger books. And so far, Dinkins' lackluster performance has strengthened the unsettling sense that he is simply not up to his job. In the war against crime, Dinkins' initiatives have been piecemeal and halting, ranging from a stillborn gun-amnesty program (only 35 illegal firearms have been turned in) to the hiring of less than a fourth of the additional 5,000 officers that police commissioner Brown contends are needed to win back the streets...
...times Dead Ringers also tilts out of coherence, with scenes that are dramatically stillborn. But Irons is splendid in both roles, and Cronenberg can create tour-de-force tableaux with his effortless black magic. In one, Bev strides into surgery dressed in red, like a demon priest at a sacrificial rite. The victim is woman; her crime is woman's unique advantage over man, the power to produce perfect new bodies from the most vulnerable part of her own. Any mad scientist, any man, can try either to serve that power or to destroy it. And Bev must finally love...
...served as a reverse winnow, adding to the list of viable candidates rather than killing anyone off. Paul Simon, whose death in New Hampshire meant that he could not win a delegate anywhere on Super Tuesday, resurrected himself sufficiently to win as a favorite son. Richard Gephardt -- who was stillborn at the new year, resuscitated in Iowa and then died aborning in the South -- is taking advantage of the new murkiness to attempt a second coming this Saturday in Michigan. Suddenly, as a result of what Elaine Kamarck, an architect of the party's rules, calls "a failure...