Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...range, often with thoughts of rising fast, is the beefy red arm offering a just-scooped cone to a customer through a candy-store window. Sometimes the arm can write some impressive profit figures. The Baskin-Robbins chain (whose promotion of bubble-gum ice cream means that discriminating adult coneheads write off its 2,600 shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping...
Abbott began his correspondence with Mailer after reading that he was at work on a book about Gary Gilmore, a Utah inmate who was executed for murder in 1977. Abbott, who had spent all but 9½ months of his adult life in prison, offered to give the author a sense of "the atmospheric pressure" endured by long-term convicts like Gilmore. Mailer accepted the offer and was stunned by the hard-edged eloquence of the self-educated Abbott, who boasted: "Nine-tenths of my vocabulary I have never heard spoken." Wrote Mailer: "I felt all the awe one knows...
...country's equatorial climate along the coast is ideally suited to the new industry. In an operation resembling the Central London Hatchery in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, adult shrimp are fished from the sea and placed in large tanks where subtle and carefully controlled variations in light and water temperature induce breeding. Pregnant females-each producing 150,000 to 200,000 eggs-are transferred by hand to separate hatching tanks, where an average of 90,000 eggs survive to become adolescent shrimp. After 17 days, always just around dawn to avoid damage by sunlight, the young...
...become a nation: the wars within the minds of the patriots may have been as flerce as the later battles with the British. Shaw traces the sources of that choice and recognizes it as an assumption of a maturity, a new willingness to confront the world as an adult nation. Few other nations had ever taken, or even contemplated such a step, and the meaning of that decision reverberated long after the tie to the mother-country had been broken. Many of the issues in that decision were concrete, and the patriots, a uniquely articulate generation, spoke of them with...
...condominium and a cooperative apartment? Whether the subject is glamour or gold, condos or coops, Network for Learning provides the answers, enlisting experts to explain esoterica in layman's language. Says Jeffrey Hollender, 26, executive director of Network: "We've expanded the bounds of traditional adult education." One of his instructors puts it more succinctly: "We're the fast food of education." The menu offers two entrees: a "one-night stand," running 2½ to three hours straight, or four two-hour sessions spread over a month. Average cost: $35 per course...