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...Western diatribe. What's more, the bombing has become less terrifying to Serbs. The sirens still sound at 8 o'clock each night in Belgrade, but the wail is now muted. The residents of the embattled city have given the sirens an affectionate nickname, "Esmeralda," after the popular Mexican soap opera that used to appear on Serbian television at 8 p.m. Increasingly the war seems like just something to watch on the tube, a long-running melodrama with only occasional plot twists. "In the beginning we used to run to air-raid shelters every night, but we don't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbia: Mind Game | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to feature a dwarf as a regular character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to feature a character with AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to expand from half an hour to an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to expand from an hour to an hour and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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