Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pregnancy through the eighth week. At a recent meeting in Dallas, sponsored by the local unit of the National Organization for Women, more than 100 women saw a 30-minute videotape that showed how the procedure is performed with a $90 kit containing a glass jar, plastic tubing and a special syringe. "We're being realistic," says Charlotte Taft, an abortion-clinic director who spoke at the meeting. "When abortion becomes illegal, not many physicians will risk losing their licenses. If I have a choice between going to a group of caring women I trust or a stranger, then...
First championed by women's groups in the early 1970s, when abortion was $ illegal in most states, menstrual extraction is a variation of the vacuum aspirations used in medical clinics. A thin plastic tube is first inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Then the uterine lining, along with an embedded fertilized egg, is suctioned out by pumping a syringe attached to the tubing. Proponents of the procedure insist that it is safe...
...skirt hangers, irons and ironing boards, and an expanded range of bathroom toiletries. Similarly, Ramada takes care to assign women to specially outfitted rooms in well-lighted areas, and will not put through telephone calls unless they are first accepted by the guest. Other hotel chains have substituted coded plastic cards for room keys and are more careful about revealing a guest's room number...
...means it literally. When Davis spotted a good investment in the Carnegie Deli, the venerable Manhattan restaurant featured in Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, the financier struck a deal to open a Hollywood branch. The glitzy grand-opening party last month featured a 3-ft. plastic matzo ball being lowered into a vat of simulated chicken soup. Best of all, Davis can now order his favorite pastrami sandwiches at poolside...
...enough to sustain this endless tale. As it turns out, there is nothing else in the deep except some benign escapees from Steven Spielberg country. Harris and Mastrantonio do have a strong death and resurrection sequence, but long before that, one is pining for a rubber shark or a plastic octopus -- anything, in fact, out of a good old low-tech thriller...