Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portrayal of adolescence--a time when a ragged teddy bear can no longer offer any solace. Fanny's small yet important role emphasizes the portrait's subtlety; on the surface the film could have been called simply Alexander, but blue-eyed Allwin as Fanny blossoms into a young adult as well by watching her brother's experiences. But Fanny is more of a silent observer. Alexander records the journey; and his recording reinforces the events themselves in affirming the importance and the reality of the imagination...
There were no curfews; instead, Woodie was put on his honor to be home on time for adult dinner parties. "Was I not," he asks, "in the sad fiction we were maintaining, a co-host?" That fiction held him tighter than chains. "I did not even sulk," recalls the author, "since honor forbids sulking, but rage ran through my head." It worked itself out through his body. The miniature adult suffered from a debilitating series of allergies and diseases...
...What I think is going on is that the caterpillars are storing the iridoid glycosids as they are feeding which is carried over their adult stage," Bowers explains. This summer, one of her projects will be to determine precisely what role the iridoid glycosoids--which are found in snapdragons and other plants, and may serve as a feeding stimulant for certain caterpillars--play in the unpalatability of the checkerspots...
...Bower's research combine evolutionary, ecological and behavioral problems. "I'm going to start playing around this summer with a moth species that feeds on catalpa trees which contain large amounts of iridoid glycosoids," she says. The larvae of this species are gregarious and warningly colored but the adults are drab and cryptic. This type of life history suggests that the larvae are unpalatable but as they molt and become adults they are no longer unpalatable. "I don't exactly know what's going on with these guys, but I'm really psyched--it's really unusual to have...
...popular music is an example those with finer sensibilities may dismiss. For there was nothing trivial about the entry of Blacks into areas of national cuture long reserved fro whites, and rock music helped unify the youth subculture that sometimes seemed to be waging open war against the adult world...