Word: adults
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...viewers did watch - more than 20 million an episode - particularly women, who made up 63% of the adult audience in the first two weeks. So it's hard not to see the show's success as a comment on TV, and maybe society. Reality shows like The Bachelor and The Swan - one area of TV targeted to women - are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids...
...World Adult Kickball Association has 20,000 playing members. A new campus spin-off: Frisbee kickball, with a disk in place of a ball
...reform-minded Coloradans, who started a campaign called Make Your Vote Count and collected more than 134,000 signatures to put 36 on the ballot. Most of the financial backing has come from J. Jorge Klor de Alva, the former president of the University of Phoenix, a for-profit adult-education school. Klor de Alva, who divides his time between Brazil and California, is now CEO of Apollo International, a University of Phoenix offshoot that runs a similar university in Brazil...
Some of the adult stories are grisly and disturbing, such as “The Jew in Brambles,” about a Jew who is forced to dance in a thorn patch and is later hanged. “[These stories] are so incredibly different from what we’re familiar with,” Tatar says. “But they’re still widely anthologized in a sort of mindless way.” “The Jew in the Brambles,” for example, has recently been included in a collection...
...this afternoon’s talk, Tatar will discuss the importance of childhood reading’s excitement and revelation. Like the magic amulets within them, fairy tales are “an enabling mechanism.” By creating a link to literacy and knowledge of the adult word, they “allow one to escape socioeconomic realities through education,” she says...