Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost for continuing adult education classes varies depending upon the course and the number of credits. A non-credit liberal arts course, for example, runs for only $120, while a workshop for graduate credit lists...
Charm, ingratiation and candid confession of past sins are also part of the persuasive skills of the title character in Mrs. Warren's Profession, a woman who has everything she wants except the respect of her newly adult daughter. Born in poverty but blessed with good looks and a raffish appeal, Kitty Warren went into prostitution and then brothel keeping. She proved to have a genius for recruiting talent and earning a steep profit, and grew to love the challenges of being a businesswoman. The role, the best Shaw ever wrote for a woman, centers on the scenes in which...
...Doyle stories, for all the fawning appreciation of the author in the film's concluding credits, serve as no more than a dramatic exoskeleton inside which Spielberg can throw his expensive toys and his retro-vision of adolescents as idealistic voyagers in the harsh world of adult cynicism and nay-saying. This union does not work with an English accent or with a character that could never tell himself "If I just believe in myself it will all come true" and then bicycle over the moon...
...teen comedies, westerns, and serious "Oscar-bait" dramas, all presumed more commercial by an industry that generally felt melodrama had become the province of TV. "Blood Simple," "Witness," "Prizzi's Honor," and "Jagged Edge" have all contributed to a feeling in Hollywood that audiences want better and more adult stories in their theatrical diet...
...like to share a story with you. A girl of ten approached me recently and handed me a bunch of flowers. I asked her, "What do you want to do when you are an adult?" She said, "I want to be a cosmonaut." That is how our children are. The Vietnamese children have great prospects before them. They will certainly do better than what we have done. And when they are adults, they will have better relations with American children than we have had. (Laughs heartily...