Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl, college students, are seated in the campus hangout, holding hands, deep in conversation. The girl confides that she will spend the weekend with her biology professor; it is, alas, the price she must pay for a passing grade in biology. Same old soap opera, same old dilemma, and as with all such troubles, matters will eventually straighten out and soon worse crises will occur...
...there is something different going on here. The boy, Adam Marshall, is black; the girl, "Sam" Whitmore, is white. The Whitmore and Marshall families have been close for three generations, their lives as inextricably entwined as only TV can entwine. It is the sort of interfamily relationship that happens in real life only seldom and in television scarcely ever...
Three weeks ago, a little girl asked MacDonald for his autograph, pinched his cheeks, and told him he is "cute...
...opportunities and dilemmas created by the new genetic knowledge begin even before birth. It is already possible, through a variety of prenatal tests, to determine whether a child will be a boy or a girl, retarded or crippled, or the victim of some fatal genetic disorder. The question of what to do with that information runs squarely into the highly charged issue of abortion. Many could sympathize with a woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy rather than have a baby doomed to a painful struggle with, say, Tay- Sachs disease or Duchenne muscular dystrophy. But what about the mother...
Where else would a baby boomer's memoir play begin but at a high school sock hop? The smartest girl in class sits alone, of course, equally terrified that no one will ask her to dance or that someone may. Where would the action predictably jump to next but a combined college mixer and "Clean for Gene" McCarthy rally? What way stations are then more obligatory than a protest, a consciousness-rais ing session, a TV talk show and a mistrustfully viewed "ladies' lunch...