Shapiro was a hit on the set, encouraging the shy and seeding the kinds of social realignments the producers wanted.
Each group found not only genuine pleasure through their patronage of the arts but, in a time of major social realignments, legitimization and proclamation of their social status as well.
She throws herself a lavish birthday party (including the Vuitton birthday cake) and somehow leaves one of her friends off of the guest list, unleashing the kind of anger, hurt feelings and social realignments that are the other driving force behind this kind of reality show, besides shopping.
The build-up the whispers, the scurries to secure a front row seat, the side-taking and social-realignment pacts—is inherently more interesting than any punch, kick or headbuild-up thever be.
WASHINGTON — Nearly 25 years of social change, political realignment and demographic shifts separate the presidential candidacies of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Senator Barack Obama.
Michael Lind argues in Politico Magazine that, "the decades-long 'culture war' between religious conservatives and secular liberals is largely over" and that "social issues spurred a partisan realignment by changing who considered themselves Democrats and Republicans".
It is a good motto for liberal social democrats who hoped for a realignment of the left and centre-left, and now confront a baffling counter-realignment of the centre-right.
While the pursuit of ecological sustainability and economic development are worthy priorities, without a realignment of institutional capacities to address social equity, the city's ecological and economic gains may be eroded.
The recession has worsened a chronic budget squeeze in the archdiocese, increased demand for its frayed web of social service programs and added urgency to a long-planned realignment of resources.
For example in the 1990s advocates of "new public health" called for health authorities to turn their attention to the social, economic and environmental factors that affect health – requiring the realignment and policy integration of Health Departments with other government agencies [ 78, 79 ].
