Word: idol
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...early voters are the best-informed, smartest, most responsible members of society. Twenty percent of them were supporting their candidate even before he decided to run; 12% planned to spend Nov. 4 volunteering at the polls. When I asked if they wanted to vote now for the next American Idol winner, 80% told me they don't watch the show. Two graduated from high school a year early. One was voting early so she "would be able to avoid crowds and take my time and read all the propositions carefully." These people were making such well-informed decisions that none...
...person, the author possesses a remarkable stony expression that clashes with his movie-idol good looks; he projects a physical sense of the intense focus and purposefulness that powers his writing. His protagonists are often humble people who blossom in the face of difficulty. His most important novel is generally considered to be Désert, published in 1980 and largely set in the Moroccan Sahara. A lyrical, occasionally hallucinatory work, it deals with the marginalized but still fundamentally vital lives of African nomads, as contrasted with the bleakness of modern urban European life. "Western culture has become too monolithic...
...parents shut down Disneyland for me, so I'm good for a while.' MILEY CYRUS, tween idol, on what she'd like for her sweet 16 after her parents threw her a birthday party at the famous theme park...
...This is, of course, not a brand-new programming strategy: All in the Family was adapted from a British show, reality hits from American Idol to Survivor have overseas DNA, and Ugly Betty and The Office are remakes of international hits, while CBS ran the made-in-Canada cop show Flashpoint this summer...
...hard to pinpoint the precise draw of reality TV: There's the vicarious thrill of talent competitions like American Idol, with its promise of stardom for shower-singers; there's the rare chance to feel superior by tuning in to watch someone being voted out of a room. Most powerful is that, at their intimate best, the shows can out-dramatize fictional TV drama. In The Real World's third season, 20-year-old Pedro Zamora, a gay educator, came out as HIV-positive to his housemates, one of whom harassed him; married a fellow AIDS educator on camera...