Word: bachelors
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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...
...Charles M. Schulz") and Glen David Gold ("Carter Beats the Devil"). The works have been loosely organized by genre. Early in the book appears what may be considered the world's first comic strip: Rodolphe Topffer's 1839 "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck," about a despondent bachelor who perpetually fails at both love and suicide. A major revelation, in its charming way it lays the groundwork for both the jollities and existential torments of comix to come. This becomes the first in a strange triptych of early suicide-related strips. Other genre groups include fiction, journalism, biography, autobiography...
...College will confer 1,585 degrees: 1,572 bachelor of arts degrees and 13 bachelor of science degrees, according to the Harvard News Office. Of the graduating class, 742 are women...
Worry not. Faster than you can say zut alors! he gets word that his expatriate bachelor uncle has died, leaving him a house and vineyards in the south of France. Max heads there at once, where he is quickly distracted by a local female attorney with long delectable legs and by the "jaunty bosom" of the hostess at the village bistro. Soon he's thinking to try his hand at making decent wine, or at least something better than the vile purple fluid his uncle was content to produce. But then a cute young American shows...
...nice not to have to wear microphones and have a camera two inches from our faces when we're making out." JESSICA BOWLIN, final choice of The Bachelor's Jesse Palmer, on their relationship since the show's finale was taped two months...