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...insignia of the American army. "Pisar recalls I ran towards it through the German machine-gun fire, and as a big Black G. I climbed out, swearing at me. I yelled Heil Roosevelt." He understood. He motioned me to move through the roof of the tank, into the womb of freedom...
...important Aztec myth. The central image on the stone was the dismembered torso of Huitzilopochtli's evil sister, Coyolxauhqui. According to legend, she had plotted with her many brothers to kill their mother just as she was about to give birth to Huitzilopochtli. Instead, Huitzilopochtli sprang from the womb fully grown and armed, decapitated his matricidal sister and chased off his brothers. Some anthropologists read the myth as a cosmic drama in which Huitzilopochtli represents the sun, who must each day slay his sister (the moon) and disperse his brothers (the stars) in order to sustain his mother...
...recently solved its long-brewing bassist problem with the addition of the multi-talented Sara Lee hurray for coeducation in rock!) The biting "The History of the World" is a disguised condemnation of imperialism and the album's underdog success. "When I was in my mother's womb, social structure seemed at simple thing," sings King with comic earnestness...
...course, the implications of being shut up in a simultaneously phallic and womb like ship, looking wistfully at snapshots of the mountainous fatherland while sinking helplessly deeper and deeper under the sea are there for those who want to explore them. But Petersen concentrates on the nitty gritty of maintaining a ship through attack after attack; his pacing maintains excitement without fail. The same limits of space that enhance the scenes of suspense, where we must suffer with the crew, listening to the watery ping of sonar gingerly feeling out the submarine before it is slammed by bombs, might have...
...guilt comes with you, not in the bag with the kotex and the pills, but in the emptiness in your stomach where the breakfast should be and in the death you believe is your womb; in the concern from the people you did tell and in the secrets you keep from the ones you didn't; in the arguments you hear amongst your classmates at meals; in the jokes and stories you see on television and in magazines; in the ghosts you find in the eyes of young children; in the blood that comes every month like a wound that...