Word: molls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your speculation that the soaps might be regarded as heirs to the 18th century picaresque romantic novel or to Defoe's Moll Flanders defies belief. Samuel Richardson-author of Pamela and Clarissa-has an ironclad patent on the myths and psychological devices of today's soaps...
...strips and rock music. But now, after more than 40 years of near invisibility, soaps are gaining academic attention. Colleges are offering courses on them. They are being claimed as heirs to the 18th century tradition of the picaresque romantic novel. Others think Daniel Defoe started it all with Moll Flanders. This week, the soaps receive what intellectuals might consider the ultimate accolade: a serious parody. Norman Lear's spoof, Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman! will start airing on 90 independent stations?often scheduled opposite the very shows it is spoofing...
Roselli, on the other hand, was very well aware that Kennedy was the President, and may even have been proud of his indirect connection with the White House. TIME has learned that a federal listening device once recorded him telling Mob associates openly about his moll and her trysts with the President...
...scantily clad prostitutes. Most of the girls are all remarkably handsome, but one slinky, dark-eyed ragazzaccia in garters and black hose was a real bam-bola (doll). It was Sophia Loren, just turned 40, who had strayed away from the camera crew for her new movie Gun Moll, in which she plays a former whore. Neorealism proved too much for one passing truck driver. He leaned out of his truck crying "Che bona!" and made Sophia an offer. Rebuffed, he sadly muttered: "Peccato! That one was stacked just like Sophia Loren...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday that Harvard had signed a petition in support of Moll but had no plans to follow up on the proposal. "We just don't feel as strongly about this issue as he does," Jewett said...