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...Harvard-Radcliffe-Class Day program--We find the Class Ode. The author (Not mentioned) seems interested in female anatomy to wit "Womb-full flowing breasts-such" The brilliant author could easily included." "Clitoris-Vulva-Vagina...

Author: By Henry D. Colton, | Title: COMMENCEMENT RETURNS | 7/18/1972 | See Source »

...most Freudian melodramas, Mama is the culprit: lapping, pawing, hugging, and not much comfort to a young Portnoy, seeing outside the Jewish womb, beyond the intellectual, cultural and religious worlds of his parents. Alex wanders like...

Author: By Barry Levine, | Title: Protnoy's Complaint | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...according to Woody, his ascent has been a series of painful falls. Success hasn't changed him, Allen insists: he's still a schlemiel. "I'm afraid of the dark and suspicious of the light," he says. "I have an intense desire to return to the womb-anybody's." Ineptitude, Woody goes on, is a family curse. The Allens date back to Rome, where they catered orgies. They later surfaced in England in 1500-they wanted to go to Italy for the Renaissance, but couldn't get hotel reservations. They came finally to Brooklyn, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...They are for the most part medical mysteries, like the Leonard brothers, who appear to have no physical defects. Some have suffered birth injuries that produce slight brain damage, the effects of which appear years later. Most seem to be casualties of their environment, starting with the womb, their disabilities the result of a congeries of medical, cultural and economic causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Retardation: Hope and Frustration | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...very clear images of woman's situation expressed as works of art," said Judy Chicago, the program's cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted into human breasts-all demonstrating what their creator called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bad-Dream House | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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