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...that they had developed a vaccine against German measles (rubella) that appears, from the first test results, to be both effective and safe. Their report to the American Pediatric Society, declared PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart, indicates that this disease, notorious as a killer and crippler of the unborn, "can be brought under control in the not too distant future...
...other poems in this issue are no more than the sum of their parts. They strive too hard for effects, and seem to come from the poet's vocabulary instead of his experience. The most shameless specimen of this kind of bombast is Worth Long's "Hope Unborn." For example...
...cardboard cartons live two newlywedded bohemian idiots, young free-spirited disasters of innocence and honesty. He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since the lad was a 15-year-old pickup...
Gareth must also fight a subtler kind of slavery. Before he can enter the jet, he must wrench himself from the womb of place. To be reborn, he must be unborn. He must blot out the streets and scents of Ballybeg. He must stop his ears against the voices of friends and their loutish camaraderie. He must stiffen in the embrace of the drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person...
...film records the shuttlecock progress of Charlotte (Macha Mcril), a rather pretty young woman who shares her affections with Pierre (Philippe Leroy), an airplane pilot, and Robert (Bernard Noel), an actor. Although Pierre is her husband, the distinction makes little difference; she doesn't know who has fathered her unborn child, and she dismisses the question (in fact, nearly all questions) from her mind: The Married Woman contains incident but no development, characterization but no conflict. Charlotte and Robert make love, Pierre comes home, Charlotte and Pierre hold a dinner party and make love, Pierre departs, and Charlotte and Robert...