Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of my adult life, the intelligentsia has been entranced and enamored with the idea of state power, the notion that enough centralized authority in the hands of the right-minded people can reform mankind and usher in a brave new world. [Now, however,] the cult of the state is dying; so too the romance of the intellectual with state power is over. Indeed, the excitement and energy in the intellectual world is focused these days on the concerns of human freedom...
After 13 movies in five years in which she played a succession of teenyboppers, Diane Lane, 19, has graduated. For her next role in Streets of Fire, a film that is being billed as a "rock-'n'-roll fantasy," Lane portrays an adult singer who is kidnaped by a gang of biker-thugs. "Hormones have happened," explains Lane. "I'm past the growing-up stage." In Lane's most recent movie, Rumble Fish, she was saddled with the unbecoming part of a wayward outsider, a tough adolescent in tarty makeup. Says...
...added to this list is Federico Fellini's "And the Ship Sails On", a dreamy, allegorical film set in the tension-filled days of August 1914, when the European continent girded for its first encounter with modern warfare. The film, Fellini's fifteenth, is an adult fairy tale gone bad. The story takes place aboard a luxury liner somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea with a group of passengers representing Europe's elite. This array of artists and nobles have gathered for the scattering of the ashes of a renowned opera star named Edmea Tetua whom they all knew at some...
...Entre Nous concludes with the French seashore at dusk, we observe the scene from the perspective of a small girl who is standing on the porch of a beachhouse watching her parents complete the breakup of their ailing marriage. She is the unnoticed observer; slightly confused at the complex adult world, but completely engrossed. The viewer experiences a similar response to Diane Kury's new film--a film that thrusts the viewer into the intricate emotional life of its character's lives, but occasionally leaves them standing alone...
...truth is that recent Presidents do not come to the job by accident. They spend most of their adult lives scheming and maneuvering to get into the Oval Office...