Word: picketer
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...Yiwu's main intersection, the Vivi Bright Wedding Photo Studio has installed fake evergreens, mounds of Styrofoam pellets masquerading as snow, and a white picket fence outside its storefront. "People want their wedding pictures in front of a Christmas tree because Christmas is modern," explains Hu Hanbang, the studio's manager. Hu plans to dress as St. Nick on Christmas Eve and give away picture frames in red envelopes of the sort that Chinese distribute over Lunar New Year...
Last summer, Trager decided it was time to see the flip side of the Arab-Israeli coin, so he spent seven weeks in Beirut and toured nearby Muslim nations. “I really have come full circle, from the kid who was on the picket-and-protest line with every single anti-Israel group to someone who very much wants to discuss the point at issue,” Trager says...
...writers who want to tell more involved stories--who have had reality TV eat into their mortgage payments--the CSI-ization of the networks has been trouble. David E. Kelley established himself with character dramas like Picket Fences and The Practice. The year before CSI's debut he had five shows on the networks. Today he has one--ABC's Boston Legal--and a reality show about lawyers in the works for NBC. Last year his family drama The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. was blown off the air by Law & Order after just four weeks. "Ten or 15 years...
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 clich of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...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...