Word: adulthoods
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...cell's DNA. But in a few cases, the viral strands zeroed in on a particular stretch of cell DNA. When the investigators looked more closely, they discovered what is known as an oncogene nearby. Responsible for normal growth during development, oncogenes are supposed to lie low in adulthood. However, they can trigger cancer if they remain stuck in the on position later in life...
...daring. The smoke rises up in tiny white clouds, and you all smile conspiratorially at one another. You've taken the folks for another ride and done what you shouldn't have. And, at the same time, you've secretly stolen a tiny bit of their adulthood--taken on their trappings, if not their responsibilities...
...make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just a brief escape into adulthood, but, more significantly, an act of rebellion...
Adolescence and Adulthood...
...idea that a 1970s sitcom could seem like paradise lost to a bunch of recent college grads looking (and not looking) for entry-level jobs while trying to find entry-level understanding of adulthood is a measure of something. The downsizing of American possibilities, maybe. Or the murkiness of American reality as it's refracted in sound-bite TV and a trashy commercial culture...