Word: datelessness
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...wide swath of the public, worth buying a $10 ticket for. Action movies, and horror movies too, typically attract the young male demographic. Comedies, when they work, appeal to all ages. Knocked Up, a stoner comedy with lots of phallocentric raunch, might have seemed limited to dateless packs of guys; yet its first-week audience charted 57% female and 56% over the age of 30. "One thing marketers have told us," says Tolmach, "is that there's a lack of a generation gap between older teens and their parents in terms of their comic sensibilities...
...films in the horror and science fiction genres are the movie rhinestones that alchemize into box office gold, thanks to a loyal contingent of dateless 14-year-old boys on a Friday night. At Cannes they are usually orphan children; here, the preferred genre is the minimalist melodrama...
While Adams House dining hall buzzed with dateless undergraduates on Valentine’s Day, the private dining hall was more likely to feature the buzzing of vibrators. Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) hosted a discussion yesterday about the complexities of feminist relationships. The group set up two divergent camps, with one side advocating an acceptance of chivalry and the other calling for the end of female submission by criticizing penetrative sex. Such stimulating topics attracted an eclectic group of over a dozen students of different genders, races, and sexual orientations. While some found the feminist relationship—whereby...
...Hollwyood movies zero in ontheir core demographic of dateless 14-year-old boys, European films of the art-house variety are trying to be more adult by showing more sex. Not pretend sex, to mirror the spectacles of fake violence in summer action pictures, but genuine, clinical whoopee. The French led the way, with the sex-splatter epic Baise-moi and Catherine Breillat's Romance. Now comes the first film (actually, digital video) by a respected British director--Michael Winterbottom, whose works include Welcome to Sarajevo, Jude and 24 Hour Party People...
...effort to help Harvard students find love on campus, the Undergraduate Council (UC) introduced the infamous Datamatch in 1995. They claimed their computerized dating service would “pair would-be lovers with their perfect mates.” UC representatives were so determined to help their dateless constituents that they even pitched in the money for a school dance to help bring the newly matched lovebirds together...