Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking to an audience in Agassiz Hall, Saxton stressed the need to create adult role models for disabled women. Saxton is director of the Project on Women and Disabilities at the State Office on Handicapped Affairs...
...that it is "much easier to give the speeches than to make the judgments." Bush won the White House by promising no new taxes, no significant spending cuts -- no pain. Now he has moved into the world of knuckle-biting trade-offs and compromise. Having spent much of his adult life striving to be President, George Bush finally is getting his chance to act like one -- and sooner than he expected...
...Dietrich: her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong, searching coquetry." That passage cost more than $12,000 in libel damages. Greene and the editors learned in court what Alice Faye had found on the set: to be an adult around Shirley Temple "was a pretty thankless job. You had to work to hold your...
...work which first awakened the outside world to the fact that an adult American drama existed which could be considered as something beyond mere theatrical entertainment." Eugene O'Neill wrote this self-assessment in a 1944 letter, and the judgment, while hardly modest, still seems incontrovertible 35 years after his death and a century after his birth. As a young playwright, O'Neill inherited a theater tradition that was principally a frame for gaslighted frivolities. By the time he got through with it, the U.S. stage had become electric, and had learned to accommodate native-grown murder, madness, alcoholism, dark...
Initially intended to put out an insert for adult newspapers, Children's Express went on to publish a magazine, a syndicated news column and a book containing a collection of its best articles. Stories are now distributed to 35 newspapers, and another book is due out next month. All are the work of 400 eight-to-18-year-old contributors recruited from around the country. The move to TV was the idea of 60 Minutes producer Harry Moses, who had worked on a piece about the organization. PBS was so impressed by a pilot version that it offered...