Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Locked away from the world (and, it should be noted, the dangers of childbirth and the bubonic plague), Virginia became Sister Maria Celeste. She served the church and the man she addressed in her letters as "Most Illustrious Lord Father." Her surviving correspondence, translated and smoothly integrated by Sobel, ranges from heretical observations of the heavens to the mundane details of housekeeping...
Many of Bourke's statements are extreme: "For men, combat was the male equivalent of childbirth ...the experience seemed to resemble spiritual enlightenment or sexual eroticism: indeed, slaughter could be likened to an orgasmic, charismatic experience." She supports her position with letters, memoirs, reports and diaries from Australian, American and British soldiers documenting their experiences in both World Wars and Vietnam...
Lasers that target only the color red have been used since the 1970s to treat birthmarks, port-wine stains and other blemishes. Doctors now believe these lasers work better in children than in adults, but they can help diminish unsightly scars and red stretch marks left over from childbirth or breast surgery. Lasers can also soften acne scars, though removing the scars altogether is difficult. Green-light lasers are effective at zapping broken blood vessels and spider veins on the face, hands and neck. But the process can be painful--just ask tough guy Mark Anfangar, 44, vice president...
Romance, directed by Catherine Breillat, promises to be among the most controversial films released this fall. The theme is sexual desire, illustrated by trs anatomical angles: fellatio, bondage and domination and even childbirth. If you hated the censorship in Eyes Wide Shut, you'll get quite an eyeful and earful here...
Previous generations didn't need to seek out risk; it showed up uninvited and regularly: global wars, childbirth complications, diseases and pandemics from the flu to polio, dangerous products and even the omnipresent cold war threat of mutually assured destruction. "I just don't think extreme sports would have been popular in a ground-war era," says Dan Cady, professor of popular culture at California State University at Fullerton. "Coming back from a war and getting onto a skateboard would not seem so extreme...