Word: roper
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...fact vicious and awful and miserable." Affleck's character is thought dead by his paramour, who begins an affair with his best friend. "When I come back and I am in fact alive, there are some difficulties." Comic difficulties? "Not comic difficulties. No zany high jinks of hilarity. Mr. Roper does not appear in Pearl Harbor." Wait until the test audiences have their...
Whatever the definition, a 1997 Roper poll found 8- to 12-year-olds were signing on to vegetarianism at twice the rate of adults. Helping set the tone are books--two in just the past year for teen veggies--and stories about celebrity vegetarians such as Chelsea Clinton, Paul McCartney and Alicia Silverstone. (TV-cartoon heroine Lisa Simpson is an especially vocal veggie.) With mainstream groceries carrying products like Boca Burgers, soy milk and tofu, and fast-food restaurants like Wendy's offering veggie pitas, meat-eating parents are having an easier time accommodating their kids and, in some cases...
From interviews of 2,000 adults conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide Inc. for Hearst Magazines
...beautiful looking. Morris' work is not only fun--in an interview he talks gleefully about a coming episode, "Clyde Roper, Squid Hunter!"--but also artful, interspersed with haunting staged scenes like that of the cattle posed regally on a set in Grandin's episode. "It's the reverse of Unsolved Mysteries, where the narrator says, 'She walked through the door,' and a woman walks through a door. I try to capture an idea in images. It's dreamscape...
...carrying them out. Churches get things done because they generate, in the think tank-speak of the day, social capital. They possess the moral authority to call people to service on behalf of others, something politicians generally lack the stature even to try. Americans, Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down but up; it more than doubled between 1977 and 1995, from 26% to 54%. Andrew Greeley...