To spend a whole night, from sunset to sunrise, in vigil, is locally reckoned as two watchnights (in Kekchi, yo'lec). On occasion when one watchnight is deemed sufficient, people go home to sleep after midnight. When a series of 13 watchnights are required, a full night vigil will normally only be observed for the final twelfth night.

In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.

The sexual climate produced by a war on pornography is a sex-negative climate, and its antisexualism permeates society.

Just watching the advertisement, you'd think the face cream was a fountain of youth.