Word: womb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claustrophobic, body-centered life-style, divided as it is between colonic irrigations and workouts and the endless trying on of clothes. The problem with Di, and the root of the British royalty's entire crisis, is that the only honest description of her occupation would have to be "hired womb...
MANY OF THE NAMES WERE BIBLICAL: Elijah, Jordan, Joshua. But the horror story that riveted America last week had the bloody pathos of Greek tragedy: a mother and two of her children slaughtered; one child ripped from her womb; another spared, murmuring, "Mommy hurt...
...addition to anxiety about leaving the womb of Mother Harvard, senior year is also marked by the return of the feeling of intense competition that many of us have not known since high school. For some students, such as premeds, Harvard has been a stressful environment from start to finish. But the rest of us have been focused more on setting our own personal goals and meeting them, as opposed to beating out the competition and being the person who ruins the grading curve...
...agree, at least on a basic level, on the pressing urgency of global crises such as the Bosnian war and the importance of international resolve in dealing with such conflagrations. Why then the push for isolationism, or what Arthur Schlesinger has termed "the return to the womb?" Despite its minimalist rhetoric, the "new" position does not herald a fresh, more friendly geo-political landscape in which U.S. muscle is no longer needed. As the Senate bill shows, far from Francis Fukuyama's euphoric declaration several years ago that the era of major historical conflict had come...
...ashes; and a letter Paula wrote during her honeymoon, foreseeing her own death. Petite and intense, Allende pours mango tea by a vase of wildflowers in the sunlit room. "All my books come from deep emotion," she says. "They are not born in my mind, they gestate in my womb." Her eyes welling with tears, she spreads across the table the handcrafted cards she uses to respond to a flood of letters from Paula readers. "They share their emotions," she says, "mothers with lost children, young people longing for a sense of family, doctors who say they will never...