Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...synonymous with the good life. No longer. Today Sweden, the postwar living example of the affluent materialistic paradise, is caught in a raging economic crisis, the like of which few industrial countries have seen since the 1930s. Workers who used to boast of their high living standards and womb-to-tomb social welfare system nowadays demonstrate in the streets to demand speedy government action to stop soaring prices and booming unemployment...
...mother of the gods was pregnant for the last time, so the story goes, her other offspring-the moon, planets and stars-became so jealous that they plotted to kill her. At the very moment of matricide, the newly born war and sun god, Huitzilopochtli, leaped from the womb and avenged his mother by killing his murderous siblings. The victims of his rage included the beautiful Coyolxauhqui, who was cut into bits. That is why, according to Aztec legend, the moon starts off full each month, then gradually diminishes in size...
Produced by Osaka's Ono Pharmaceutical Co., the new suppository drug is based on one of the prostaglandins, hormone-like compounds once believed to originate in the male prostate gland. Researchers have long realized that certain prostaglandins could induce contractions in smooth muscles, including those of the womb. Soon doctors were using them to speed up labor in difficult births and to induce abortion when other techniques had failed, or seemed unsuitable. Yet such abortifacients (as these drugs are called) had serious shortcomings. Usually administered intravenously, they often caused stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other physical problems. Thus...
Some of the skits feature energetic performances. In "Sex Education," special mention goes to Robin Leidner, who plays Jane's womb, for her narrative of Jane's pregnancy and delivery as seen by a participant. In "Ms. America," Nancy Sinkoff shines in her portrayal of contestant Ms. Harvard, who answers the emcee's question, "What would you be if you grew up?" with "I would like to be president of I.B.M.... Any woman who is energetic, motivated, and intelligent is capable of getting a good job and rising quickly...
DIRECTOR DOWNEY conceived the idea for A Womb of One's Own last year when she read Lamb's play. The results should encourage future feminist productions to match the quality of substance and performance achieved by this cast in "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" for many other women's issues need to be confronted on the stage as well as in other media...