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...dorm room; males and females pile on couches and crowd together on the floor, yet no textbooks are to be seen and all is ominously silent. With all eyes focusing on the television screen, tension builds as the group anxiously awaits the opening theme song of their favorite nighttime soap. Bound by their loyalty to Fox soaps, students forget their daily differences, neglect important assignments, cancel dates, and sit through 15 minutes of commercials dedicated to acne wash, tampons, and shampoo...
...Canaday and Lionel gather each Wednesday evening to watch "Party of Five." Jonathan J. O'Donnell '01 hosts the weekly watching for friends Brian F. Shaughnessy '01, Kyle F. Shinners '01, Mirella A. DeRose '01, and several devoted entrywaymates. O'Donnell is not ashamed to be a male nighttime soap fan and flaunts his knowledge of the shows, saying "Party of Five" wins because of Jennifer Love Hewitt, my future wife. The show is better than `Beverly Hills 90210' since Brandon thinks he's a `tough guy' and Donna is just so ugly with her fake cleavage. `Melrose' doesn...
With its ever increasing penchant for mawkish soap opera and garish costuming (and no one is a bigger culprit here than Kulik), figure skating has become camp spectacle. Perhaps as a corrective, the judges of the men's competition sent the message that skating is indeed still an earnest sport where fierce athleticism matters. In other words, yes, the much discussed quadruple jump counts. Of the top medal contenders, only two skaters, Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, also a Russian, attempted one, and only Kulik landed his: a perfectly executed quadruple toe loop...
...America struggles to understand the Lewinsky affair, there's a natural temptation to make sense of the drama by reducing it to a clash between individual heroes and villains. And so we have a parade of soap-opera caricatures--the overzealous and partisan prosecutor, the lusty young temptress, the bloodless wife, the philandering husband--all competing for blame in the public...
Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and a whole cast of characters have filled the newspapers for the past several weeks with all the makings of a tabloid soap opera: sex, lies, videotape and a huge media frenzy. Yet, though the recent accusations may be sensational, it is important to remember that they are nothing more than speculation at this point. We simply don't yet know the facts of the case. They may not be fully available for months or years, if ever. Until we know more, any attempt to pass judgment on the President rests on little more than speculation...