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therefore define romance as the state that occurs when two people both nurture and encourage acts and thoughts that cherish the other as unique and irreplaceable.
“Scanlon would go on to edit two more seasons of The Apprentice, then got fired, two weeks before Christmas, after a male editor came back from paternity leave.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“cartoonish stereotypes were the industry default.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Darwin had no problem saying that animals had fun playing. But suddenly only people could “play”; a behaviorist might say that non-humans could merely “engage in affiliative activity.”
― Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
― Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
“The catalyst for these protoreality shows was, as ever, a labor strike:”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Frank Berry, then the head of the NAACP, also objected to the show, but from a different angle. The way he saw it, the problem with Cops wasn’t that it worked with the police—it was that cops behaved better on camera than they did in real life, concealing their racism.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
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