Word: tampax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stratton moves on to a corner of the third floor where the 13 female trainees are quartered. Twenty additional women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...
...soap -the 20th century kept intruding. British education authorities ruled that schoolbooks had to be available for the children, and laws demanded that a butcher come in to stun and slaughter the pigs. TV crews appeared on the scene about twice a week. Percival allowed the volunteers to use Tampax and contraceptives, sent in a doctor four times during emergencies, and took the group for a summer outing at the shore. Said he: "No one's life should suffer or be altered for a television show...
...fails to realize anything more subtle, anything transcending what he shocks you with. El Topo is intensity for the sake of intensity. Jodorowsky's attempts at anything but horror are sad failures: a scene of Mara discovering the world outside of her monastic confinement looks like a bad Tampax...