Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Headroom became a cult hit last season, ABC spirited the computer-created character away and repackaged him in a prime-time (if short-lived) series. The Fox network has picked up Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy series It's Garry Shandling's Show and has fashioned an adult version of Nickelodeon's children's game show Double Dare. NBC is carrying the cross-pollination one step further, with plans to produce a comedy series, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, for the Disney Channel. The show may also air on NBC, but only after a first run on cable...
Hamilton's search for Salinger leads him into the author's fiction, where he finds autobiographical inspiration. The city and suburban settings of Nine Stories reflect Salinger's Manhattan youth and his adult stint among the commuters of Westport, Conn. The soldier in the magical For Esme -- with Love and Squalor suffers from a case of nerves not unlike the symptoms Salinger described in a letter to Hemingway. Models are identified for members of the Glass family, the precocious and haunting characters who ride the time loops of stories as early as A Perfect Day for Bananafish and as late...
...university's professional schools and research institutions have produced a dazzling string of scientific and technological breakthroughs. Stanford developed the world's first X-ray microscope. The Stanford Medical Center was the site of the nation's first adult heart transplant. Stanford research produced the basic patent on gene splicing and scores of other inventions that will net the university some $6 million in royalties this year...
...longtime heir apparent at Disney was Ron Miller, Walt's shy but well- meaning son-in-law, who was made chief executive in 1983. Miller gamely tried to push the company out of Walt's shadow, primarily by starting Touchstone Pictures to enable Disney to produce adult fare without compromising the company's image. In 1984 the Touchstone label produced Disney's first hit in more than a decade, Splash, in which Daryl Hannah played a frisky mermaid. But by then the company's profits and stock price were already plunging. The same day that Disney released the film...
...publisher of legal and business manuals, Farmer was a Republican for most of his adult life. He first became interested in politics in 1979, when he was attracted to gadfly Candidate John Anderson. Farmer sent Anderson a check for $1,000 and soon became his chief fund raiser in Massachusetts. In 1982 he approached Dukakis and offered to run the politician's finances in his re- election campaign. Farmer switched to the Democratic Party and sold his business for several million dollars. He has become a confidant of Dukakis; he made two trips to the Far East with his wife...