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Hijuelos' deliciously extravagant imagination declares its presence on every page. His style is impassioned and almost impossibly lyrical. Often bawdy, Fourteen Sisters is also beautiful, reflective and wise. Particularly memorable is the birth of Emilio, who "descended out of the heaven of his mother's womb, through clouds of Cuban and Irish humors, slipping into this feminine universe at half past ten in an upstairs bedroom brilliant with sunlight, surrounded by the chatting, nervous, delighted, and overwhelming female presences that were his sisters...
Tita (Lumi Cavazos), the heroine of Like Water for Chocolate, is one such kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...
...baseball nut since the womb from Pasadena, Calif., the Angel camp at Palm Springs was my only taste of spring baseball. It was just a two-hour drive from my house, and my dad took me to an Angels-Padres game there when...
...healthy survivors, they find them. Still the question remains -- Why? Does the amount of virus a woman is exposed to make a difference? How effective might her vaginal and cervical tissue be as a barrier against infection? Does it matter if a child is infected while still in the womb or during passage through the birth canal...
...stored in a Tennessee clinic, the Davises wound up in the Supreme Court. Junior Davis had requested that the embryos be destroyed, asserting his own "reproductive rights." His ex-wife claimed a right to her "offspring." In refusing Mary Sue Davis' appeal to implant the embryos in her womb, the court decided that Junior Davis' right not to become a parent outweighed his ex-wife's claim. The Justices upheld a lower court's ruling that in such cases "procreational autonomy" gives men as well as women an overriding right not to become parents. What effect this will have...