All are friends with the bubbly Teresa Giudice, 36, whose husband, Joe, is a contractor, but only Teresa and Jacqueline are friends with the divorced, boundary-challenged, cosmetically enhanced Danielle Staub, 46, who aches to befriend the beautiful Dina and whose ill-fated attempts to do so, and to find a man, provide much of the show's narrative engine.
Poor old Peter's always going to be regarded as a man provided by providence with a face only a mother could love, and watching the glorious "World in Motion" video on repeat makes it obvious that the man who ended his career trotting out twice for Melbourne Knights doesn't really want to be on camera.
The ungainly spectacle of a US state desperately seeking a supply of pharmaceutical in order to kill a man provides a snapshot of the dire condition of the death penalty in many of the 32 states that still practice it.
According to this theory, a man provides food and succour for a woman and her offspring in exchange for the knowledge (or, at least, the reasonable expectation) that they are his own children.
In one such incident, the initial basis for a material-support case alleging a man provided "military gear" to al-Qaida turned out to be waterproof socks in his luggage.
An earlier, milder satire about the scientific establishment, Memoirs Of A New Man, provides a reminder of his extensive work with technical personnel when, after his war years in the Royal Air Force, he worked in government service.
Over the past three decades, he has described the ordinary life of an ordinary man, providing a rich seam to be mined by future historians.
The deaths of his father and elder brother while he was still a young man provided Harvey with a considerable fortune, much of which he squandered gambling in London.
Gotham was the work of two men: Douglas K. Dunn, a lawyer, who selected the performers and planned the programs, and Gordon L. Beals, a foreign-exchange trader, who (though in his own words, "not a wealthy man") provided the financial backing.
But you can still score goals as a target man providing you get into the box".
In 1999, a Westchester man provided them with bad information about the disappearance, but it was enough to intrigue a state police investigator, Joseph Beccera, about the case.
