Word: adulthoods
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...sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable creation and provides the film with its radiant core. Beautiful and petulant, Darrell gives a splendid performance as Natacha, a confused and complex eighteen year-old wavering between adolescence and adulthood...
...basketball court but struggles with dyslexia. Because his father and stepmother are loving and decent, and because a sharp-eyed teacher has worked to bring Sam's reading and self-respect up to where they should be, the boy has a good shot at steadying down to adulthood...
...this will no doubt reassure the middle-aged woman who has been suffering $ away in silence, wondering if she isn't, perhaps, losing it. But for the woman who's feeling just fine, thank you, who isn't planning to start either a "second adulthood" or a new life as a "crone" (Greer's term), the new menopause genre will read like the ghastly tracts on menstruation that used to be inflicted on girls in the 1950s. Puberty then, like menopause now, was a portal labeled ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE...
...they should be tied to such an obvious nonevent as the cessation of menstruation (which, with the latest technology, does not even necessarily signal the end of childbearing). There's no age that isn't a good time to confront one's mortality or to consider a second adulthood -- for men as well as women...
...nonvirtuosos will spend significant stretches of their adulthood rediscovering the single life. Current trends suggest that this will be particularly true of women, both because they live longer than men and because they are less likely to remarry. Women will adapt by developing new types of relationships: dating younger men, seeing more males in platonic friendships and living together in groups with other women, not unlike the Golden Girls model. Computer and videophone dating services will help with matchmaking far more than they do today...