Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reached out to us," said Dawn Defalco the segment producer who booked Stewart...
...reached out to us," said Dawn Defalco the segment producer who booked Stewart...
...plenty of people with heroic passages in their life, who bravely shatter a limitation or convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes, we found a pattern: the ones who changed society the most were those who liberated a segment of humanity that had been fenced in by prejudice. Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball; Helen Keller demolished old notions about the blind and deaf; and Harvey Milk dared to put himself on the ballot as an openly gay candidate. On his fourth...
There are, however, genuinely unnerving moments on The Man Show. One segment has the hosts setting up a table on the boardwalk in Santa Monica, Calif., and getting women to sign a petition to end suffrage. Their point is that women are not smart enough to know the difference between the meaning of the words suffrage and suffering. (It goes without saying that any number of men might have responded exactly as the women did.) But for the most part, The Man Show, like its FX counterpart, is less offensive for its sexism--most of which is just silly--than...
...could try to make the contrarian argument that the ghettoization of crude male programming on cable television represents some triumph for feminism, however minuscule. But what the trend really signals is a feverish effort on the part of cable enterprises to reach a segment of the population not yet served by its own self-identifying slice of not-very-good television entertainment...