Word: soaps
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...rape allegations have prompted calls for Katsav to quit. The president's lawyers dismiss the charges as false, alleging that they were trumped up by his political enemies. Earlier, Katsav had accused "A" of trying to blackmail him. Stay tuned for what promises to be a long-running political soap opera...
...Taken together, however, the two tales of romance say as much about how Indian society has changed over the past few decades as any economic indicator or business deal. Where love in India was once a very private affair, it's now on display all over the movies and soap operas, magazines and newspapers, and between young couples canoodling in parks. At this time of year, wedding season and the lead up to Valentine's Day - a Western tradition increasingly popular in India's more cosmopolitan cities - it's even more noticeable...
...globalization has brought cultural influences from abroad, which have begun to change India's own habits: satellite television, which carries soap operas with far racier storylines than the average Bollywood flick; Indian versions of Western magazines such as Marie Claire and Cosmo, which discuss sex in detail only slightly less graphic than do their sister publications abroad; even the growth of cafes, which have become the dating spot of choice for many young urban couples looking for a quiet place to sit and chat. "There has been more social change in the past 10 years than in the last...
...young men drawn to the football. But that's precisely what turns off women, who saw the testosterone-driven football promos early on and ran the other way faster than a halfback outracing the defense. But the reality is that the show is a character-driven prime-time soap that happens to be set in the world of the high school football. "It's a show about young people under extraordinary pressure and the adults that are forced to deal with them," says David Nevins, president of Imagine Television, which developed the series. "We knew that the football might...
...field, though, their humanity all too often pokes through. We know - how could we not in these days of blanket coverage? - that even the greatest stars have faults. Warne epitomizes this sad fact better than most. His off-field antics sometimes seem lifted from a soap opera script: fined for giving a bookmaker information about "weather conditions"; suspended for using a banned drug that can mask steroid use; divorced after a series of lurid extramarital affairs. Little wonder that Warne's early teammates nicknamed him Hollywood. He is, noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck recently, "an unusual blend of immaturity...