Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could the blame also partially lie with age restrictions on drinking? In other cultures where alcohol is regularly part of meals, incidents like this are likely extremely rare occurrences. Age restrictions on drinking lead to a mystique that may lead people, especially those underage, to binge-drink whenever they have the opportunity...
David S. Bennahum '90 reflects that same sense of serenity in technology with his new memoir Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace. He portrays technology as the safe haven for teenagers whose lives might not be picture-perfect. Family and societal turmoil fades into the background while they take refuge in a computer lab. Complex but logical strings of programming code restore order and sense to otherwise tumultuous lives...
From a young age, Bennahum found solace in video games. Intensely lonely as an American growing up in France as a young child, his first taste with video games came as he vacationed in the French Alps with his family in 1973. Suffering from a sprained ankle, he discovered a new game called "Pong" in the hotel bar, and was mesmerized by it. "Who or what controlled my opponent's movements? What were the rules governing the flight of that square shuttlecock?" The reader can really feel how important finding a niche was to him through the simple yet emotional...
...parallels the author draws between the world and computers are fascinating, especially those on why computers were so appealing to teenagers. In a sense, teenagers of that time and computers grew up together, experiencing the same growing pains. "Together, computer and kid existed in a golden age, a time when the machine was available to us unconcealed, stripped to its component parts, when adults barely understood what we were doing...for the Atari generation the evolution of the machine briefly matched that of our adolescent selves, becoming a vessel and partner, a coconspirator in our mutual coming of age...
Frederik is not the only character trying desperately to stay young. When actress Desiree Armfeldt (Kate Agresta '02), Frederik's former lover, comes to town, Frederik spies her on stage and escapes his wife for a nighttime tryst. Despite her age, Desiree has not lost her charms, and their ensuing rendez-vous stands out as the most artfully staged and intriguing scene in the play. The audience watches the pair's lovemaking silhouetted through a screen. At the same time, on a different part of the stage, Leonora appears to reminisce about her youth spent manipulating aristocrats and complains that...