Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...womb of the Hayden Gallery sprout the constructions of sculptor Chris Sproat. Boston-made himself, Sproat has illuminated spaces around here with his light sculptures for the last six years. Always avant the garde, and one of the first artists to exhibit at Boston's then new Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), he was back there this past summer as part of "The Skowhegan School, 1946-1976". Summer and "skowhegan" are, sadly, over, but there are still a couple of days to catch the last bright glimmers of Sproat's work. Hurry...
...these civilizations, at puberty, boys are taken from their mothers and placed in isolation in a womb-like situation in a tent. After many days they are pulled out by their heads through their fathers' legs. At this recapitulation of the original birth experience, they babble like babies. But soon afterward they are given weapons of adult men to signify that they are ready after their second birth to accept the responsibilities of adult life...
...ship far out at sea whose masthead can already be seen from the shore; it is like the morning sun in the east whose shimmering rays are visible from a high mountaintop; it is like a child about to be born moving restlessly in its mother's womb...
ABORTION. In 1973 the court ruled that a state cannot stop an abortion when a woman and her doctor decide that she will have one-so long as the fetus is not "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb." But does a woman's husband have any rights in the matter, and if she is an unmarried minor, can her parents forbid the abortion? Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3 on the first question and 5 to 4 on the second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute...
...with her parents. She screams that her mother hates her, always has, because she's jealous of her father's love for her, the child. "How old are you now?" asks Ron. She is three. Ron asks again, and she says she is three months in the womb, knowing that her mother does not want to bear her. "Be your mother now," says Ron. "Do you hate the child or are you just afraid of losing your husband?" The woman takes the hint and, still vibrating rapidly in her chair, forgives her mother...