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Strangers cannot be found on the Playboy channel--you will find it instead on HBO, one of more than half a dozen or so "adult" anthology series offering soft-core sexual adventure that have been appearing late at night on the various paycable networks. Of course, the ability to show bare female nipples--and to get endless mileage out of low-budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly...
...undergraduates on campus were a very different group from the usual population: Since many students were already well into their adult lives, they tended to be "more mature and motivated," Lewis says...
...problems." When a mother of children at the school lost her husband to cancer recently, leaving her with six sons, parent technicians set up a workshop on grief. A welfare mother, who had put her child in foster care, found her self-confidence so built up by parenting and adult-education classes and her service in the PTA that she recovered her daughter and got a secretarial job. Recently parent techs held a wedding reception at the school for a mother who finally got married. A grandfather, inspired by a writing workshop, reads his poems at school functions...
...working so hard to entertain us--songs like Hard Day featured sweaty, muscular dance rhythms; ballads like One More Try had amusingly earnest vocals. Michael's new songs are too concerned with seriousness and maturity to break a sweat. In his attempt to make music that's restrained, adult and timeless, he's instead crafted songs that seem exhausted and out of date. Listeners looking for laid-back pop-soul that smolders, intrigues and seems thoroughly contemporary should check out Everything but the Girl's supple new CD, Walking Wounded...
Looking like a thin, penurious Bill Gates, Todd Solondz, 36, pretty much fits the adult profile of a guy who got called names in junior high. He nevertheless claims the funny-grim Welcome to the Dollhouse isn't autobiographical. "The story of the bleakness and misery of my adolescence is a different movie," says the second-time director (he also made 1989's barely seen Fear, Anxiety and Depression...