Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anger, violence, and death until you're sick. There are no restraints on your arms and legs, no steel clamps on your eye-lids that force you to watch, but Fosse cynically expects you to keep watching, even as you wince. This, Fosse seems to be saying, is what adult life is all about. Look at the dirty pictures and the degraded emotions. Enjoy...
...POIGNANI JUXT APOSITION between the illusion of hope football offers the town and the reality in which they live makes much of All the Right Moves an incisive example of social criticism. When the team captain tells a stadium full of adult fans "We're not doing this just for us, we're doing this for you," it is more than a appeal to their spirits: it is an insightful--and painful--truth...
Michael Shinagel, dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, attributed the rise to University efforts to improve and expand the school's curriculum and degree programs, as well as growing national demand for continuing adult education...
SUCH INFORMATION is horrifying when we reconsider that high school education is purported to train our children how to live responsible adult lives. The type of mentality that such unhealthy competition fosters is detrimental to society, no matter how many helmets and shoulder pads we wear to disguise it. Perhaps more disconcerting, though, is the cultural situation that has given rise to such an unwholesome condition. In Tom Cruise's new movie All the Right Moves-- the story of a hypothetical high school football team in a blue collar Pennsylvania milltown--the coach reminds the players that they are nothing...
...Tremblay goes off the track when he for-sakes a deeper exploration of his characters for emphasizing Serge as a magnet for his sisters' frustrated sexual desires. Adult life has been unpleasant to them; and they hope to recover the imagined innocence of childhood by becoming their baby brother's keeper. The towering irony is that Serge's own childhood, shaped by his sister's loving ministrations, precluded his ever being a paragon of innocent morality: we find out that his lover. Nicole (played by Maura Barry), is actually his fourth sister...