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Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters--as thin as mica flakes, especially the men--are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a cliché of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...Charles River keeps the imagination from going further. One glance at that illustrious intersection of waves and angled wooden deck reveals the link between Cambridge’s famous water and Harvard’s historic tradition. The faithful attending services here, you are instantly reminded, are the rowers of the world’s most storied collegiate program. Their mass is practice; they are not parishioners of the divine...
...Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters - as thin as mica flakes, especially the men - are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a cliche of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...creating a customized character. You can be a slacker in a sweat suit or a nerd in a sweater vest. You can have green hair, a blue Mohawk or an oversize Afro. Next, explore public spaces like Palazzo Pizza, where you can grab a slice, or the Habbosphere Pool Deck, where you can go for a swim or jump off the diving board. Then check out the guest rooms created by users. You can gamble in the casino rooms or try to meet someone in the dating rooms. There are lots of gangs and groups, like the U.S. Army, which...
Yusuf Islam is not one of the missing hijackers, or one of bin Laden’s advisors. Nor is he associated with Hamas, nor does he enjoy the illustrious status of being a playing card in the US Army’s Iraqi deck. He’s Cat Stevens. Cat “Peace Train” Stevens...