Word: reruns
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...Before I left China for the U.S. in 1996, at age 24, my sister made me watch a rerun of Baywatch so I'd be better prepared for life in my new country. But my impression of Americans as proud-bodied beauties with gleaming smiles was shattered soon after I landed. Baywatch, it turned out, was as distant from reality as the stories in my childhood newspaper...
...Christians" and only "got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion." At issue is a November 2005 episode that mocked the Church of Scientology, of which Hayes is a member, and the world's most famous Scientologist, Tom Cruise. The show was not rerun last week, as scheduled, for reasons Comedy Central declined to explain. Maybe somebody realized it wasn't very well drawn...
...polls in order to "create a balance between political powers." But after seeing the preliminary results--by most accounts, a strong showing for the Shi'ite religious parties--his view has changed. Now he sees the election, which Sunnis have claimed was marred by widespread fraud and should be rerun, as "a trap." Al-Anbari says his group's attacks will continue, and he is helping to bring together different insurgent groups on a provincial level...
...instance, there was the bitter strike of Hollywood screenwriters, partly over the studios' insistence that the writers accept a rollback of the rerun payments called residuals. Studio executives were saying writers had to make some sacrifices in the leaner economic conditions the industry was facing. Then, in an article in the New Yorker, Joan Didion pointed out that the total received in residuals by all 9,000 members of the Writers Guild was $58 million and that Eisner's 1987 compensation was an estimated $63 million...
...kept him out of the latter half of the '94 season. Irvin and Williams are either easy targets or - easy - the biggest fools in the land. Irvin, maintaining his innocence, told the media after Wednesday's practice, "I'm looking forward to seeing how you guys go rewrite, reprint, rerun all these things about what happened Sunday night when you find out that I wasn't even at Erik's house...Can you run it with the same intensity that you ran this other stuff? I want to see if it's possible...