Word: bachelors
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...core, the telenovela is selling the same idea that made shows like The Bachelor so popular: "You really think that there is one soul mate for you," Galán says. "It's a universal desire." But the scripts need adjustment. "It's very commonplace for a protagonist of a novela to be a virgin until she gets married," she says. "In the U.S., it would seem ridiculous...
...short-term solutions to their problems, they all go to a sex cabaret called Shortbus. Among the denizens are a courtly older gent, who bears a passing resemblance to a former bachelor mayor of New York, and the cabaret's host, real-life male diva Justin Bond. "It's just like the 60s," he says of the entanglement of bodies in the orgy room, "only with less hope." The search for connection might seem exclusively sexual, but to Justin it's all about style. He quotes one Lotus Weinstein as saying, "I used to want to change the world...
...spokesman James E. Aisner ’68 explained the decision to accept Gottesman, even though he is not a college graduate, by telling The Economist that “extraordinary circumstances will sometimes compel it to drop [its] rule” of only admitting students who hold bachelor's degrees...
...nearly half have an ATM debit card, and more than a quarter have bounced a check, according to a survey of 5,775 teens, released in April by the nonprofit JumpStart Coalition for Financial Literacy. If those trends continue, declaring bankruptcy could become as common as earning a bachelor's degree...
...into the White House. Bereft of ideas or ideals, they take the advice of a chambermaid and run on a platform of Love. Their scheme is to stage an Atlantic City beauty contest and marry off the winner, a Southern honeypot named Diana Devereaux (wowser Jenny Powers), to the bachelor Wintergreen. The candidate, though, has fallen for his secretary, Mary Turner (Jennifer Laura Thompson, fresh from playing Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked). The John-loves-Mary affair wins the hearts of the electorate, and Wintergreen is soon President. But an international scandal explodes when the French Ambassador reveals that...