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...principals are ostensibly mature professionals, not adolescent airheads, gives the film some of its fatal attractiveness. So do James Dearden's plausible, nicely observant script, Adrian Lyne's elegantly unforced direction, and Close's beautifully calibrated descent into lunacy. Together they bring horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives. Men will suddenly, squirmingly, recall times when they barely escaped the consequences of their caprices. Women have been seen emerging from this movie wearing secret smiles. Their surrogate may be a nut case, but she is also a familiar case, and there are sisterly pleasures in seeing...
...freezer boom is being powered by the increasing presence of grownup appetites in a market traditionally associated with children: most frozen snacks are now bought by the free-spending, sweet-toothed 25-to-44 age group. Among the favorite treats of these young adults are the frozen fruit and juice bars, supermarket items made essentially of water and natural fruit chunks or juice. Sales of the bars jumped nearly 50% last year, to more than $300 million. Frozfruit, a small company based in Gardena, Calif., introduced the first frozen fruit bar nationally eight years ago. But the novelty...
...barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...
Unlike the best of the new buildings, the most intriguing new products and graphics retain a streak of playfulness. Ron Curtis' outdoor table, for example -- a piece of painted redwood fastened to a teak stake -- seems perfect for grownup Cheever children: charmingly zany and casually handy, equipment for a movable fete or a midsummer night's drink. The View-Master 3-D Viewer, a color-slide viewer intended for actual children, has been around for nearly 50 years. In honor of its longevity, the company commissioned Designers D.M. Gresham and Martin Thaler to produce a new version...
...horrible sight. His head seemed to splash open and little soft bits of grey stuff flew out in all directions." Younger readers may be astonished that this graphic recollection comes from the author of durable children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Admirers of Roald Dahl's "grownup" ^ stories (Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch) should not be surprised. The passage, which appears in the second installment of Dahl's memoirs, bears his stylistic signature: restraint balancing the macabre...