Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that her husband Torvald (Sam Waterston) will discover her secret dealings with the malignant moneylender Krogstadt (Barton Heyman), she makes the panicky gestures of a heroine in a silent-movie melodrama. When she reads the riot act to Torvald prior to slamming the famous door, she sits as motionless as a pillar of ice. Presumably, this translates as "frozenly adamant...
...reason for this omission may have been the internal contradiction that testimony introduced into Flanagan's case. Giminez-Jimeno depicted Edelin as ruthless and cold-blooded, saying that be ripped the placenta from the uterine wall "with force" and stood, motionless, with his and in the opened uterus for three minutes. "He was locking at the clock. Nothing else," he said. Giminez-Jimeno, and other doctors who testified for both the prosecution and the defense, agreed that such an action would have certainly caused the death of the fetus by anoxia...
...essence. The defense could not deny that Edelin had deliberately caused the death of what the jurors saw in that photograph. And it may be that the defense never succeeded in removing from their minds that first, vivid picture of Edelin as a ruthless, cold-blooded abortionist, standing motionless over a dying child...
Allen Barnes, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University department of obstetrics, said a three-minute wait during which Edelin is accused of holding the fetus motionless within the uterus was "perfectly all right...
Flanagan alleges that on October 3, 1973, Edelin stood over the patient and, with his eyes fixed on the operating room clock, held his left hand motionless within her open womb for a period of between three and five minutes. And that only when he was satisfied it was dead, Edelin extracted the fetus. And that this fetus had for a brief period been alive, and had even breathed, and that this fetus was "viable" and could have survived on his own outside the woman who had requested the abortion. But, through the actions of Kenneth Edelin, this "male child...