Word: adult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...provide scope for analytical skills that never before existed, and in so doing it has altered the world in which the student will live as well as the manner in which he will think about the world ... No adult is truly civilized unless he is acquainted with the civilization of which he is a member, and the liberal arts curriculum of 50 years ago no longer provides that acquaintance...
Prison overcrowding, like prison riots (which overcrowding helps ignite) and nominal devotion to prison reform (to which riots give a short-lived public urgency), has been a U.S. constant. Today the American Correctional Association, the main organization of prison officials, has a 495-item roster of adult-prison standards. A basic requirement is that each prisoner have his own cell of at least bathroom size, 60 sq. ft., half as large as cells provided in one Pennsylvania prison 150 years ago. But today only about a fifth of U.S. inmates have one-man, 60-sq.-ft. cells...
...come a long way, sister. The gym classes you skipped at school now form a significant part of your adult entertainment. You are working hard, playing hard, making yourself hard and strong. The sports for which you were once only a cheerleader now serve as your after-work recreation and, thanks to Title IX, part of your school-age daughter's curriculum. Spurred by feminism's promise of physical, domestic and economic freedom, you have done what few generations of women have dared or chosen to do. You have made muscles ? a body of them ? and it shows...
...kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very clean old man (especially as portrayed by the innocent-eyed Hector Alterio), and it is she who lures him on into an affair that is chaste sexually, utterly enthralling emotionally. The switch-it is the child who entraps, the adult who is victimized-is full of delicious irony. But it is with dark deftness that Writer-Director Arminan has Goyita increase her demands on Alejandro until she brings him to destruction, herself to an awareness of female power. One goes smiling to the film's tragically romantic close...
...Ford Coppola has finished shooting The Outsiders, and is currently making Rumble Fish. That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse named Toyota, has no plans to write adult fiction. Says she: "I'd rather claim authorship of My Friend Flicka than Princess Daisy...