Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CONTRAST to the kind, caring kids, there are two kinds of adults in E.T.: MOM, the humorless, unobservant adult, abandoned by her husband, has enough problems holding a job while raising three kids. She is too busy and perhaps too mature to notice E.T., even when he is literally under her nose. And there are the cold, calculating adults, represented cloddishly by the nameless, faceless band of NASA men. They are not only aware that E.T. is in town, but also want to trap him and do God-knows-what to him for their own purposes...
...then did Ronald Reagan, who has spent much of his adult life refining the notion of America as arsenal of the free world, journey to the sun-dappled campus nuclear Eureka College, his Illinois alma mater, to sound the call for nuclear restraint...
...rapidly growing mound of pig literature includes a racy paperback cartoon book called Pigs in Love (Clarkson N. Potter; $3.95), about Porkov and Daisy, whose amours are described as "an adult love story for pigs and sows everywhere." The author-artist, Revilo (real name: Oliver Christiansen), was originally commissioned to do a cat book but found felines "too aloof." Says...
Herman begins by identifying the brutality as widespread. Five surveys since 1940 have asked about sexual encounters between female children and adults (including the famous Kinsey report). Two of them show 15.8 percent and 14.4 percent of the women surveyed to have been involved in a sexual encounter involving physical contact with an adult. One estimate based on the five surveys conservatively concludes "that somewhere in the neighborhood of one million American women have been involved in incestuous relations with their fathers, and that some 16,000 new cases occur each year." Herman stresses that reports of sexual aggression...
...historic news came as no surprise. The gloomy April results had been expected for several weeks, as the economy continued to spiral downward. The unemployment rates for adult males, women who support families, teen-agers and blacks were already at record levels and they went still higher...