Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaking of dating, hmmm. Perhaps, the comping process and the self-aggrandizement it encourages isn't so far removed from real life after...
...available -- prescribed by a doctor with parental consent -- Carrera knows that access to birth control is not enough. "When kids are empowered with information and stimulated by hope for the future, it has a contraceptive effect," says Carrera. "Education. Employment. Their own bank accounts. Good health. Family involvement. Self-esteem. These are also contraceptives. It's the total fabric that is important." Carrera also teaches them how to play sports, like squash, that rely on individual discipline and control. "Whenever you posit a single solution to a complex problem, you are not as successful...
AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly acted, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...
PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic sweep and the proto- Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions...
...artists who embodied it best were Benton, Wood and John Steuart Curry. They hardly knew one another. But it happened that Henry Luce was looking for a patriotic circulation builder for the Christmas 1934 issue of TIME. Walker was duly interviewed, Benton's self-portrait went on the cover, and American regionalism was born. "A play was written and a stage erected for us," Benton would later remark. "Grant Wood became the typical Iowa small towner, John Curry the typical Kansas farmer, and I just an Ozark hillbilly. We accepted our roles...