Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past tense police bailiffs with shouts of "Phony justice" and "Basta! Enough of violence against the bodies of women." Outside, more than 2,000 militant feminists crying "Viva Claudia!" and "Claudia is not afraid!" marched defiantly past riot police and raised their hands in a triangular sign denoting the womb. The gesture has become a feminist symbol of solidarity...
that comes from a womb...
Peering deep into the womb of a pregnant woman, doctors have succeeded in exploring and filming-at a remarkably early stage of development-the secret world of the living human embryo. The results of their efforts are the dramatic highlight of an hour-long CBS television special, The Miracle Months, which will be broadcast on March 16 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. Written by Physician-Author Robert E. Fuisz, Miracle Months is a moving, prime-time tribute to recent spectacular progress in prenatal care-advances that enable doctors to salvage many pregnancies for which there was once little or no hope...
...doctors to save their endangered babies. Interspersed in their stories are sequences tracing the baby's development from the moment of its creation and the division of its first few cells through its amazingly rapid growth into a full fetus and finally to its emergence from the womb. Even in the earliest stages of pregnancy, the embryo is amazingly babylike. By the ninth week the fetus is kicking and wiggling, though it is so small-only a few inches long-that its mother cannot feel any movements. Its sex can be recognized, and at one point it seems...
...whipping and crucifixion. Chip Durgom, a small, bearded man of 28, stars in The Astronaut, a sketch involving a woman's fantasy about shrinking a man to the height of only a few inches, which then shades into a man's fantasy about returning to the womb. In a chicken fantasy, Durgom plays a squawking bird about to be roasted and carved by Big Mama. Like much of the show, the chicken scene is played broadly for laughs...