Word: truman
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...November Republican presidential candidate Dewey ahead in University and national polls, but underdog Truman wins. Yale beats Harvard...
This is where a reference to The Truman Show would go--except that the movie got it wrong. It assumed that a man would have to be enslaved to live life in front of a camera. As the CBS reality series Survivor and Big Brother--adaptations of wildly successful European shows--demonstrate, people will jump at the chance. All it takes is a shot at cash and the promise of fame...
...Corcoran Park, the sunny streets surrounding picturesque townhouses straight from The Truman Show were empty...
...Truman Show...
Furthermore, Medwed's characters lack depth. Daisy, Truman and Henry all speak and act with much the same voice, and as a result blur into one non-distinct personality. The only truly distinct personas are, in fact, the international students, by virtue of the fact that Medwed blatantly exploits them through their ethnic stereotypes. There's an Italian lover, a pert, fashionable Francaise and a few Asian guys who speak broken English, wear black leather jackets and play video games. Perhaps the most insulting portrayal, though, is that of the Lewises' first student, an Indonesian named Pilombaya who is illustrated...