Word: soap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lots goes on here in the town of Night-soap, most every night of the week. Mondays Blake Carrington comes to visit, with his young wife, his tramp daughter, his homosexual son and a billion dollars' worth of Colorado oil contracts; Blake is trying to build a Dynasty. Tuesdays we see the Weldons,from up on Flamingo Road; they got more problems, and hormones, than an alligator has teeth. Thursdays we play bridge with the young marrieds from Knots Landing; most of the time, though, they want to play other indoor games. Fridays we reserve for our oldest friends...
...several years, Oklahoma City's residents have been both horrified and titillated by a scandal that involves money, politics, sex and revenge-and some of Oklahoma's most prominent citizens, politicians and psychologists. As one participant observed to a friend, "It's better than Soap or Dallas. Who could have ever thought this one up?" Who, indeed...
...plot and made his characters real people, not, as in States, participants in a dramatic reading of his half-baked theories about life. When he sprinkles occasional bits of dialogue among the pontifications about "stimuli deprivation" and "the inner self," he displays a mastery of conversation a la soap opera; "I've got to be alone," says he. Perhaps Chayefsky knew what he had wrought, when, after a vintage Hollywood pissing contest with director Russell, he took his name off the credits as screenwriter. All it says is "From a novel by Paddy Chayefsky," which, incidently, is said...
...should the Rev. John Hurt [Dec. 15] force on me his opinion of what television America should watch? I enjoy Dallas, Soap and the other "immoral" programs, and I don't feel I have been adversely affected by them. Mr. Hurt does not have to watch these programs if he feels they are immoral; or has he forgotten that there is an Off switch...
...buried, the Spaniards had cultivated vineyards, long since gone. One day Reagan brushed against the native buckthorn bush, and its berries rubbed off on him. Later, when he washed at home, the juice made a lather and he figured out that the Spaniards had used the buckthorn berries as soap...