Word: womb
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Conversely, Phillip Schwartz's "Job's Curse" is a near-life-size work featuring a gaunt, sketched figure whose outline is filled with a grim monologue that begins "God damn the day I was born and the night that forced me from the womb." Susan Avishal looks at portraiture in a completely different way. Trained as an illustrator, she draws detailed close-ups of the clothing that people wear; she describes her work as "a metaphor for any covering which can both hide and reveal what is underneath...
...people seemingly determined to feed his paranoia, eventually murders his analyst. His girlfriend Emma, played with convincing indifference by Laurie Metcalf, torments Dennis with cheap ties and constant reminders to feed the fish. As Dennis settles into his analyst's office, saying, "I remember when I was in the womb...," Dr. Schooner (Rowan Atkinson) sighs and draws up a shopping list. Wright's classic deadpan performance is set off perfectly by the boredom and snobbery expressed in Atkinson's exagerrated facial expressions and accent. Although well acted and directed, it is the witty and original script, written by Mark Armstrong...
...only challenges accepted wisdom but stands it on its head. According to Profet, a woman's flow is not some incidental event in the reproductive process or just a sign of failed fertility. Instead, it is a mechanism that protects fertility by preventing sperm-borne bacteria from infecting the womb...
That dream evolved, after plenty of thought and research, into a full-blown thesis. Profet's reasoning begins with the observation that potentially harmful bacteria can catch a ride into the womb and Fallopian tubes by attaching themselves to sperm. The microbes can come from the male or get picked up in the vagina during sex. Menstruation eliminates the threatening intruders in two ways: the sloughed-off uterine lining carries the microbes off, and the blood itself is rich in immune cells ready to gobble up any alien invaders...
...protect the womb from infection, says a scientist...