Word: segmenting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some are just hoping a successful X-Men movie would boost morale in the industry. But that depends on what segment of the industry you ask. Publishers of non-super-hero comic titles, like Fantagraphics, have a problem with perpetuating the public association of comics and adolescent male power fantasies...
...experience on TV. When most people are asked to relate their most embarrassing moment, they inevitably tell some suspicious story about "accidentally" getting naked in public. At least they do in the kinds of magazines I read. But all my most embarrassing moments happened on television. There was the segment for Entertainment Tonight, when the interviewer asked me if Bruce and Demi's divorce would affect their children, and I said, "Only if they are selfish, vindictive parents like mine." We still talk--on holidays...
...They Mated," a segment in which computer graphics simulate the unlikely offspring of such celebrities as New York Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...voice of youth. But in a way, Ling isn't the only new member of the team: Walters has opened up considerably to the show's saucy format. In a discussion of older women's sex appeal, the hosts joke about Walters' making a sex video; she closes the segment saying, "I'm off to make my film!," shimmying and starting to strip off her pink jacket. This is surely a sign of the apocalypse. But she can still be a wet blanket, especially when it comes to trashing celebrities she might want to interview later. "I still have times...
...public places. From 1992 to 1999, the National Safety Council says, the number of deaths caused by falls and drug overdoses surged 21%. One reason: the growing number of elderly who are too frail to recover completely from falls that result in fractures. To protect this fast-growing segment of the population, the council plans to propose new building codes, including nonskid bathroom floors, more handles in housing for the elderly and better warning labels on commonly taken medications...