Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Monday the one surviving adult member of the Move household, Ramona Africa, is scheduled to be sentenced. She faces seven to 14 years in prison after an "old-fashioned political trial," as The Nation put it, in which Ramona--who it appears had taken a course in law and worked as a paralegal, dread locks and all--caught the judge on judicial procedure and made him eat his own words...
...Though adult smokers are not reduced quite yet to heading for the nearest high school bathroom, the places where they can legally light up are dwindling. Thirty-nine states and numerous localities now have ordinances against smoking on public transportation and in public places, including schools, hospitals, auditoriums, theaters and government buildings. Two weeks ago, New York City Mayor Ed Koch (who quit smoking in 1952) proposed what he termed the most stringent antismoking regulations in the nation. If enacted, Koch's law would forbid smoking in enclosed public spaces, such as taxis, stores and rest rooms (there goes that...
...round man on a cane, Dan has lost a hip to arthritis, actually to a childhood of peanut and cotton farming, compounded by adult years operating a belt in a phosphate factory. Still, something visible remains of the athlete, the first baseman who followed Uclesee to the Albany Red Sox and later coached semi-pro teams in Tampa. "My daddy carried me around like I carried Dwight around," says Dan, noting that none of the three sons from his first marriage ever embraced the game. "Oh, but it pleased me when Dwight took it up. 'Baseball, baseball,' his mother liked...
...daring version of Ibsen's The Wild Duck at Arena Stage in Washington. The play is frequently seen as a domestic melodrama in which well-intentioned people cause calamities; the climactic suicide of a dreamy adolescent girl is generally staged with perverse beauty, as a sentimental symbol of how adult reality crushes freedom of spirit. Pintilie, who brings an Eastern European's Marxist sensibility, has exposed a vein of social criticism about the corrosive effects of wealth and envy...
...family who are barely hanging on; a strong wind could blow them into the lower class. The issues being debated, mostly over meals, are whether the father (Ed Harris) should take a job out of town, whether the elder son (William O'Leary) should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks...