Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asked to assess his past, du Pont is helpless. There are no traumatic childhood memories, few personal crises in his charmed adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...
FOOTNOTE: *Conducted by telephone on Aug. 17-19 among 600 adult Americans. The sampling error is plus or minus 4%. "Not sure" responses are not included...
...Menil's director, Walter Hopps. It is not "systematic," presenting objects by period or, rigidly, by style. It tries to reverse the overcategorization that afflicts the presentation of art as a subgenre of pedagogy in many American museums. In short, it treats the visitor as an adult and lets him draw his own conclusions...
...exploit that market, software houses are busy developing adult-oriented games that are more sophisticated than Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and can be played as easily on a keyboard as with a joy stick. Programmer Crawford's current best seller, for example, is Mindscape's Balance of Power ($49.95), a foreign policy simulation in which the player tries to check Soviet expansion in as many as 62 different countries without starting a nuclear war. In Starflight by Electronic Arts ($49.95), players explore some 270 star systems and 800 simulated planets, zapping aliens all the way. Infocom has even come...
...when he and his wife Ann, "the couple on the wedding cake," are on vacation in Bermuda, he has a homosexual encounter and is shocked to find that his body continually horrifies him. In McPherson's fine first novel Testing the Current, the young Andrew was an observer of adult mores; grown up, he is absorbed with words. They provide his life's structure but are "slippery little things . . . and costly too"; he seeks a wider world and a new language. Some fish in the Sargasso, not true swimmers, need its twisted mass for support; Andrew must trust that...