Word: girlfriends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class picture. A sixth sense of self-protection tells him when someone has entered the room behind him. By nature gregarious, he must keep the truth about his family guarded from those who would be his pals. But Danny is, after all, a teenager. He has a girlfriend (Martha Plimpton) now, and a secret that is aching to burst from him like young lust...
...characterize a lot of what they're experiencing -- grabbing and slapping -- as violence." In order to raise the consciousness of young daters, the project's acting troupe visits local schools and puts on skits that present alternatives to courtship altercations. For example, a jealous boy learns to respect his girlfriend's need to socialize with others, rather than accusing her of unfaithfulness...
...trouble. Other techniques aim at making aggressors realize that their violence is unlikely to change their partners' personalities. Brian, 27, a Boston graduate student, came to see that his own unrealistic expectations were fueling his fists-first attitude. "I even had a list of five things I wanted my girlfriend to achieve," he recalls. "I'd count on my fingers and say, 'If I marry you, you'll have to do this, this and that...
...Yale graduate who just can't deal with his real world. It's not as if Adam has AIDS or is penniless or something. He is merely upset that his mother has remarried a man he doesn't like. And he is upset to find out that his girlfriend, Suzanne, has been using the Widener stacks here at Harvard for more than intellectual pursuits, igniting a sexual relationship with her comp lit advisor...
...that was. For Allan is hit by a truck and wakes up a quadriplegic. He is told to look on the bright side: "You'll get all the best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow) is a mad scientist of the cybernetic age, Cuisinarting the genes of capuchin monkeys...