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...over the years clients began drifting away because of Ayer's genteel Main Line fustiness, and the agency became known as the "great gray womb...
Scholondorff is best at Oskar's birth, a womb-view of human re-entry. We stare with Oskar out of his mother's heaving port-hole, hurtle down the bloody, mucus-filled chute, and then, too soon, out the door into the glaring bulb-light of modern German, Western Middle-class civilization. "When little Oskar is three, he will have a toy drum," says Mama and his umbilical cord...
...condition became increasingly apparent, she agreed to marry an Iranian taxi driver to save her family from disgrace. But the marriage fell through, and the brother, in a fit of anger, killed her. A male fetus was reported to have been removed from the girl's womb, and blood tests were carried out, presumably to determine paternity...
...healthy, or does a defect destine it to an early death or a life of debilitating illness? In many cases the answers to these worrisome questions can be found in laboratory analysis of a small sample of the amniotic fluid drawn from the sac surrounding the baby in the womb. Using amniocentesis, as the technique is called, doctors can accurately predict serious disorders like Down's syndrome (mongolism) and Gaucher's disease (a metabolic disorder); faced with a grim certainty, prospective parents can opt for abortion. But amniocentesis has its limitations; it cannot foretell all defects. Now comes...
...aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal, for rediscovery of the womb, a flow of delta brain waves-or just a snooze. The experience might be called the caviar of self-indulgence. Float tanks, as they are called, originated on the West Coast. The idea behind them was developed in the 1950s by Neurophysiologist John C. Lilly, who is most widely known...