Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether confronting the deep past -- his bourgeois childhood as the son of a stern Lutheran minister and dutifully repressed mother -- or his adult past, where wives, mistresses and children drift almost anonymously through the shadows of his theaters and sound stages, Bergman rarely strikes the customary autobiographical notes of nostalgia and the tranquil acceptance of fate. To him, middle-class morality is a cloak for madness, family life an invitation to distraction and guilt. Neither helps one come to grips with decay, eroticism, violence -- those irrational torments by which the unseen world insists on its presence in our lives...
...Well, one day Frank went out and drank himself some beers, bought himself a can of gasoline, a perfectly normal adult activity, and went home to the wife, the dog and his furniture sales. There was the gas and the furniture, gas and furniture...I don't know...a match was involved. It's physics, I dunno, you tell me...So Frank went out to make his way in the world of entertainment..." And so we meet Frank heading out for his wild years, with his slick mustache, black and red smoking jacket, three-inch cigarrette holder, greased back hair...
...Soviets into supposed supermen and super-women, selected when barely out of the cradle and taught like emotionless automatons to excel. This exaggerated notion has some basis in fact. The Soviets have a nationwide network of specialized sports schools for even the youngest potential stars, leading to intensive adult training guided by methodical, scholarly study. High-tech training wizardry is rumored to be compounded by steroids and other chemical help: indeed, one popular explanation in the U.S. for the 1984 boycott was Soviet fear that its star performers would fail drug tests. And as for the awesome women athletes, well...
This year, however, as the class of 1992 flocks to college campuses, some hard adult choices are mixed in with all the pleasures and opportunities. In an age of $18,000-a-year college bills, many students feel pressured from the start to select a major that is not only meaningful but also marketable. Some must allocate time for a 20-hour-a-week job, as well as early morning classes and late-night study sessions. Alcohol and drugs remain an omnipresent lure and danger made more enticing than ever as stress levels soar. And the challenge of dating...
...other new students, the greatest challenge is simply getting used to the independence that gleamed so brightly in the distance while they were in high school. "Being an adult all of a sudden was hard," recalls Harvard Sophomore Jonathan Cohn, 18, "balancing my own checkbook, making my own plane reservations." Some students struggle for the first time with managing their money. Others, like Craig Rich, a theater major at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, found that "one of the hardest things was waking up in the morning. You didn't have Mom there banging on the door...