Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Making high-cost loans to lower-income borrowers doesn't sound like God's work, and the industry continues to hear criticism that it takes advantage of unsophisticated or desperate customers. "There is a whole segment of lenders who target low-income families and try to trap them in a vicious cycle of debt," complains Congressman Joseph Kennedy, a member of the House Banking Committee, who has pushed successfully for legislation to limit mortgage interest and fees. "It's a strategy that allows them to rake in hefty profits off the misery of others...
Weidle was the last of three featured performers on the "Stupid Human Tricks" segment of "Late Show with Dave Letterman: Boston...
...began his segment by lifting a metal tablespoon towards his face--and inserting it into his nose for most of the length of the handle. Turning to Letterman, who was holding a prepared bowl of Rice Krispies, Weidle leaned over, scooped up a spoonful, and by carefully tilting his head poured the Rice Krispies into his mouth and chowed down...
Moyers begins each segment with a boiled-down version of the appropriate chapter and verse, narrated by an actor, either Alfre Woodard or Mandy Patinkin. Moyers limits his fellow conversationalists to seven per episode: but since Visotzky is the only guest who appears in more than two, the resulting cast comes to 39. It includes novelists like Bharati Mukherjee, John Barth and Mary Gordon; but also Bible experts, preachers, psychologists and a smattering of artists and poets. Among them are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, two Muslims, a Hindu, a Buddhist and several apparent agnostics. Yet in a choice that will reduce...
When the conversation does lock onto a subject, there can be fireworks. In the series' best segment, "Apocalypse," about the Flood, British author (and former nun) Karen Armstrong conducts a blistering twin attack. God, she maintains, is "not some nice, cozy daddy in the sky." He is "behaving in an evil way," effectively introducing mankind to the idea of justifiable genocide. Noah, meanwhile, is a "damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked...