Word: unwedding
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"Having reason to hide her condition," writes Dr. Bauer, "the unwed mother attempts to conceal her enlarging abdomen by pulling in her buttocks, much as the cowed dog tucks his tail between his legs. This flattens the abdomen and reduces the lumbar lordosis [curvature of the lower spine]. In this...
As Capra tells the teary tale, raggedy Annie has an iron kidney and a golden heart. People think she is selling apples just to make gin money. Little do they know that the burlapidated old bag is (violins can now be heard sobbing on the sound track) An Unwed Mother...
When the baby is born, the unwed mother's parents pass it off as their own. "Remember, darling." says Mother, "for the rest of your life you must act as if your baby were mine. For the rest of your life you have to think: This isn't...
Four women sit alone in a cottage trading stories about their marriages, while they wait for their husbands to return. Each of these flashbacks deals with blighted love that springs to life once more, surviving infidelity, unwed pregnancy and simple loss of interest. To complete this motif of regeneration, the...
Ghosts is haunted by a successful past. The plight of the playwright as social reformer is to turn one generation's problem into the next generation's platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of...