Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly everyone on this set seems to have an entertainingly mean mouth. The old director proves a match for his son when it comes to exchanging insults: "Some people are brought up in poverty," he notes casually, "and they become cultivated people. Others grow up spoiled rotten with luxury and become guttersnipes." And when Dongan Lowndes, who has fallen heavily off the wagon, says that "the world can get on quite well" without a film version of his novel, Walker offers a laconic thought: "If we get into what the world can do without . . . God knows where...
...course of the evening, Nick and Honey grow to be old hands at George's and Martha's form of verbal warfare/lovemaking through a series of parlor games: Humiliate the Host, Get the Guests, Hump the Hostess, and, finally and most deadly, Bringing Up Baby. None of the characters is spared by the scalpel of these not-so-playful plays. Father-killing, mother-killing, baby-killing--all are dredged up for common consumption...
...EVIL FLOURISH in our society where we give it the soil to grow. But once the evil is gone will we have to reinvent it to remind ourselves what we should not do? Should we reprint racist remarks to warn what we might revert to? And when racism was a more apparent problem than it is today, should we not have protested against it? Perhaps we are silly and being laughed at, accused of being prudes but think of the standards you apply when you laugh and try to wonder whether you can rationalize away sensitivity...
...would enjoy free transport and housing, the end of manual labor and living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...
Adolescents who have personality traits that parents love--obedience, responsibility and self-confidence--tend to shun drugs through high school and adulthood, while rebellious, pessimistic youths often grow up to smoke, drink and use illegal substances, according to a 12-year study...