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The article describes the circumstances thusly: Weber’s career spanned a historical shift that since has been termed Hollywood’s “masculinization.” The conditions that favored women gave way to conditions that disfavored women. Studio employment became more stratified and networks of small independent studios merged into large conglomerates. The heterogeneity of early experiments solidified into the patterns of a “Hollywood film.” The cost of making a typical movie quadrupled after 1915, and gambling with high financial stakes didn’t seem suitable for women. Neither was women’s moralizing influence still necessary. By 1928, 65 million Americans, half the country’s population, were going to the movies every week. Universal went from eleven women directors to zero, and stayed that way for sixty years. When Weber told young women “don’t try it,” her intention, writes historian Shelley Stamp, was to save women the anguish of trying to succeed in a system that guaranteed their failure. .. The [Hays] code forbade subjects like drug trafficking and prostitution, and prohibited actresses from appearing in “compromising situations,” which effectively excluded women from both serious and comedic roles. ... She was often described in terms that stressed her deviance from the norm, as the only woman with stamina and brains enough for directing. ... It was a backhanded compliment: emphasizing Weber’s gender worked in tandem with designating her films the equivalent of chick flicks. Her audience was demarcated in smaller strokes, as when a new release was reviewed as suitable for “matinee children and women.”
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Switching base isn't a unit change but rather a change of notation. Switch to base-2 and you'll still have that the circumference of a circle is 2*π*r (or τ*r for those so inclined). If you decide to switch to base-π for your numbering system then how many sides does a triangle have? "3.14" base 10 at only 3 significant digits is more accurate than "11.00100" base 2 (3.125 base 10). "3.24" base 16 is even more accurate. That's because the significance of a significant figure depends on the base. Trigonometry in the SI system is based on radians = units of π, not base-60/360 degrees. The decimal compass system is called the "gradian", with 100 gradians in a right angle. My calculator in school supported it.
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"Deplorable" is not a synonym for "resident of flyover country", though there are certainly many attempts at rebranding. The top definition from your second source is 'Individual Trump supporter', with no one listing your definition. My question remains - why was it important to use a recent political term for a viewing audience from decades ago? An audience which included many Carter and Clinton supporters - Carter being not only from the Bible Belt but a deeply committed Christian for his whole life, and Clinton being from 'flyover country'. As others here have pointed out (and in the Wikipedia entry), it was also 'must-see-TV' for many people on the coasts, including major cities. Surely "country folk" is a more descriptive, more correct, and less divisive term.
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Was it necessary to bring up recent politics here? Clinton's term "Deplorables" refers to "the racists and the haters, and the people who are drawn because they think [...] to restore an America that no longer exists". I remember none of that from Hee Haw. I can assure you that three generations of my family watched it avidly in Miami, which is about a far from "Flyover Country" as possible.
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One of the things I like about living in Sweden is that everything in the store is labeled with a "jämförpris" - a comparison price. In this case it would be dollars/ounce. For things that don't go bad, and where size doesn't matter much, like shampoo for the home shower, I'll pick based on that price rather than the total. I tried to do that in the US, but my mental math skills aren't that good, and it's awkward to pull up a calculator to figure it out for everything.
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"Hole"y moley, surely! That city won't be getting my tourist dollars. I'm content to see the pictures of others. I've been trying to figure out if the bottom of the pit is really cold, as the -60C winter air sinks to the bottom and doesn't leave, or if it's warmed up from being that deep. I can see why there might be turbulence problems. I wonder if a sarlacc wants to move in.
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I'll add some more history of space tourism. Quoting http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120712-where-is-hiltons-lunar-hotel : "Those plans began to take off in 1967. Barron, who was then president of Hilton, told the Wall Street Journal that he was planning to cut the ribbon at an opening ceremony for a Lunar Hilton hotel within his lifetime." - something Mad Men fans might have heard about. To be fair, it was mostly a PR stunt, but many people made 'reservations'. Such tourism stunts are likely even older, as one of my favorite books as a kid, Heinlein's 1958 book "Have Space Suit—Will Travel", referred to them as coming true.
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