Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rebecca Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl” and a role that has won Kargman national recognition and success in tough auditions. “I mean, she’s just totally independent and focused and charismatic and just someone that a normal person can really empathize with.”Kargman has been a performer since her youth, and her ability to build complex characters springs from both her self-described “wild imagination” and her determined, artistic drive. She approached Harvard fresh from four years on the competitive...
...other show stars, controversy was the primary fuel for very limited brief spikes. The single greatest one-week spike, for example, was for third season contestant and country music star Sara Evans. Sara's search spike - over 8,000 times the normal level for searches on her name - actually had nothing to do with her participation in the show, but everything to do with her quitting the show mid-season due to a very messy and very public divorce from her politician husband...
...Another child born in the basement died shortly after its birth due to lack of medical care. The other three, Lisa (15), Monica (14) and Alexander (12) lived in the house, attended the local school, and appeared to be normal. Josef allegedly told his wife that their daughter had run away to join a cult and had left the babies on the doorstep of the house. He produced a letter allegedly from her, which was quoted in the Austrian press: "Don't try to find me, it would be pointless and would increase my suffering and the suffering...
...Iris Burton or the roughly translated phrasing a child-labor-using sweatshop owner in a third-world country. But if you consider it carefully, there are more parallels between these types of labor than you would imagine.Child actors, like sweatshop workers, often lose the opportunity to attend a normal school and never experience important stages in character and personality development. Thrown into a world controlled by adults, both are often forced to accept adult responsibilities when they are far too immature to adjust. The pressures placed upon them are unnatural at their age. The resulting misbehavior—largely related...
...like me - is a narrow definition of the qualifications necessary to be President. It helps to be a warrior, for one thing. It helps to be able to take a punch and deliver one - even, sometimes, a sucker punch. A certain familiarity with life as it is lived by normal Americans is useful; a distance from the élite precincts of academia, where unrepentant terrorists can sip wine in good company, is essential. Hillary Clinton has learned these lessons the hard way; Barack Obama thinks they are "the wrong lessons." The nomination is, obviously, his to lose. But the presidency...