Word: popularizers
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Which isn't to say that all of the shows were worthless. Television's The West Wing was showered with Emmys, but more popular--and more weirdly gripping--was Survivor, starring 16 real people conniving on a tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation...
...nation teetered, Schulz soared to previously unknown heights of popular culture. One snowy night that December, when Schulz was 47 years old, some 55 million viewers, more than half the nation's television audience, tuned in to the fourth airing of the Emmy award-winning animated television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the popularity of which confounded network executives who had predicted that its cartoon format, melancholy jazz score by Vincent Guaraldi and simple retelling of the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke would alienate the public. That same night, a musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown...
...television, film, book, record and subsidiary forms, simply hadn't been open to newspaper comic strip artists in 1950, when United Features Syndicate had given Schulz the chance to dream his dream. On that one night in 1969, he reached a larger, more diverse audience than any other single popular artist in American history. What was more, "Peanuts" was single-handedly expanding an industry that would revolutionize worldwide entertainment into the next century. In the late '60s, for the first time in the book trade, booksellers started to sell not just "Peanuts" books but also sweatshirts, dolls and an increasing...
BEST FRIENDS A study at the University of Maine proves what unpopular children have always known: it's more important to have a few close friends than it is to be popular with all your peers. Kids without one or more close friends in grade school are at higher risk for depression, anxiety and low self-esteem as they grow up. They are also more likely to have relationship problems as adults...
...Years since a candidate has lost the popular vote but won in the Electoral College...