Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times, Fromm's premises seem as sweeping as those Utopian prescriptions. His picture of the peace-loving primitive man is unconvincing ("Wars among primitive hunters are characteristically unbloody"). His explanation for the rise of patriarchal rule during the urban revolution seems equally shaky ("No longer the womb, but the mind became the creative power, and with this, not women, but men dominated society...
...beginning: "'What's so important about that?' you might ask...well, at least it gives you something to think about," Littlechap declares at the end; after which he, too, retreats into his state of circular existence, gently subsiding into the fetal position and womb whence he came. Perhaps this is all a bit contrived or pretentious, but one must take Newley thought schemes with a grain of salt. And here, in an honest and unassuming production, one can accept the show for what it is. In any case, this rather bizarre setting is compatible with the array of familiar tunes...
What price privacy? At the moment, $80,000 and up. That is the tag on a custom-made "contemplative environment"-the latest extravaganza offered in the Neiman-Marcus department-store Christmas catalogue. "Very basically, it's enclosure, the womb," declares the environment's design chief, Richard Stonis. While it is not exactly Walden Pond, the plush private world is like a self-contained dollhouse that can be outfitted with film screens to show custom-made movies, a stand-up bar, isometric exercise equipment, a round water bed and anything else the purchaser might desire...
Everybody's doomed in this world view, so life is giddy, fast-paced and self-destructive. And always--on the streets, in the womb-like bars--violence is rippling under a tiger's skin of desperate holding-on. A party for a newly-returned Vietnam Vet ends, predictably, with the medalled soldier sitting alone, a wallflower. It takes an instant for him to explode into savage confusion. Men are shot, quiet for a second, and then they go wild. The audience is always poised for this, and it helps drive the film...
...physicians and legal experts have disagreed on the precise moment when an unborn fetus becomes an independent life. In its abortion decision last January, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a state may not protect a fetus until it becomes "viable," that is, after approximately seven months in the womb. In 18 states, however, authorities have decided that a pregnant woman can receive welfare payments for her unborn child, just as for any other child, because Congress specified that the Social Security Act was meant to encourage "continuing prenatal care and protection...