Word: adult
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...addiction and offers a straightforward four-week program to break the habit without severe withdrawal symptoms. Addiction may be a metaphor, but the reality, according to Wilkins, is that among American children, television ranks second only to sleeping as a consumer of hours. The average American, both child and adult, watches more than six hours of television daily. By the age of 14, a devoted viewer will have witnessed 11,000 TV murders, claims Wilkins, and will digest 350,000 commercials before graduating from high school. A recent study at Michigan State University discovered that when four-and five-year...
Assistant Director for Adult Services...
...humor in getting any living creature drunk whether it be an adult, a child or an animal. Killing a goat with alcohol [Sept. 6] is poor entertainment. Why not shoot him instead...
...have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...
...huge success. Though the new venture is more than half financed from its own assets, the Disney organization is no longer the magic profitmaker that Uncle Walt bequeathed. Disney films have flopped almost without exception since Mary Poppins in 1964; the organization's celluloid bid for adult acceptance, TRON, has yet to recoup its $22 million expenditure. The recession and the declining appeal of its theme parks have reduced attendance at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom. Epcot Center is expected to attract 9 million admissions its first year at a one-day price of $15. Disney strategy...