Word: waists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible, but even soft-core porn is a form of violence. All pornography reduces women to dehumanized objects, available for men's sexual use. It changes sex from an act of love to one of hate and contempt. Women's individuality is defined solely by breast sizes and waist measurements. And finally, not only are women shown as passively acquiescing to male aggression, but they are portrayed as enjoying it. When women are seen as objects and not as thinking, feeling beings, atrocities of all kinds become possible...
...more unnatural every day. A woman expecting her first baby today has a 25% chance of delivering by caesarean. Even a 'natural' birth often means that the mother is merely 'awake' for the proceedings. Never mind that she's strapped down, numb below the waist, electronically monitored, chemically induced, and intravenously...
...John Wilson strides into his office outside London, his hands at waist level, his fingers spread like antennae. Easing into a chair, he turns to a visitor and launches into a discussion of his life's work. Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause most...
...Pena, acts the part of Nijinsky quite effectively. There is a certain ineluctable spirit about him. But of his dancing, strangely, nothing at all can be said: Ross never permits him to per form a complete sequence of a ballet. In one instance he shoots him only from the waist up; in another he uses optical effects that render De la Pena's move ments jerky and blurry. The rest is just bits and pieces. All this leaves a sizable hole in the middle of the picture. If you do not fairly represent an artist's gifts...
That same year I also did the American Ballet Theatre's new production of (Stravinsky's) Firebird. They generally pick really ballet-looking guys, extra skinny and tall, but they picked me anyway. You have to fit into their costumes, and the largest waist on any of them is a thirty. I was not a thirty, but I lied, and appeared at the first rehearsal with many safety pins. My part was to stand on stage during the wedding scene...