Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurts to admit that the child is inaccessible to you. You're not only separated from her by forty years: you are hampered by your own unreliable memory. You abandoned the child, after all...Now, in spite of all impossibility, the adult wishes to make the child's acquaintance...
...Only the adult Nelly can judge the actions of her childhood, and attempt to reconcile her present values with the ethical tenets of her youth. Spurred by her own daughter's probing questions today, Nelly is driven to explain how it is possible for people to ignore evil, to photograph a murder rather than stop it, to walk past a starving begger, eyes carefully averted. The questions are never answered--there are no answers--but out of the explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past...
...course, the difference between the television and adult film versions is that on the tube, we see a bit of tush here, a lot of cleavage there, and generally hear all about other people "doing it." In the Combat Zone, films are usually light on plot and dialogue and heavy on explicit...
...taken over the industry. (In fact, they may be less significant than the flowering of over-40 models, now in greater demand as America's older population burgeons.) Brooke Shields is quite another matter, says Eileen Ford. "She is a professional child and unique. She looks like an adult and thinks like one." But as for the other dressed-up children, Ford declares: "There is no such phenomenon. Brooke is the phenomenon...
Popular wisdom has it that diets that are relatively high in protein are nonfattening. But that assumption may be wrong, suggests a study from the University of Virginia. Two groups of adult rats were fed the same number of calories for nine weeks. One group received 25% of its calories from protein, the remaining 75% from fats and carbohydrates; the other group got only 5% of its calories from protein. The surprising finding, reported in Science: the rats receiving the high-protein mix gained twice as much weight. Moreover, fat accounted for nearly 24% of body weight in the high...