Word: soaps
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...style that owes much to Brazil's famous soap operas, in which every movement, emotion and line drips with melodrama, the film depicts him losing a finger in a lathe accident and then his wife and son in childbirth, before he bounces back to lead the powerful metalworkers' union in historic strikes that challenged the country's military dictatorship. (Read "Can Rio's Crime Problem Be Solved Before the Olympics...
There's nothing new about breasts, thighs and silliness on Italian TV. They have bedazzled viewers since the 1980s, when the television stations of Silvio Berlusconi, a mere media mogul before entering politics, revolutionized the airwaves by putting Italians on a diet of American soap operas, football and sex all over his Mediaset empire. But the formula was about more than TV ratings; it also boosted Berlusconi's political fortunes. (See pictures of Berlusconi and the politics...
...considered my sister Lisa and her husband Mike for quite a while, since they live in a nice suburb in a homemade-soap-filled home and share a lot of our beliefs. But that guy watches an awful lot of gore movies, and he laughs at them. And they bicker a lot, and I'm defining bicker broadly enough to include discussions between opposing players in NBA games. Plus, they don't want kids, which is a big consideration when you're giving someone...
Even indigenous Mayans' unknowingly feed the bacteria by washing their clothes on lakeshore rocks with soap that contains phosphorous. An overabundance of phosphorous coupled with three weeks of unusually high temperatures - which the government blames on global warming - is a possible reason why the lake is blooming this year...
...British audiences had better get used to being challenged on their assumptions about how TV actors and presenters should look. Stamell already appears on the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders as a teacher -her disability is incidental to the plotline. In addition, BBC is launching a drive to find new disabled talent for its programming, and another broadcaster has hired a facially disfigured man to present its news bulletins this week. (Read "Bad News...