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...strategy and tactics employed by the U.S. team of political advisers better befit the selling of soap than the election of a President." LENNARD B. WEINGARTEN Ferney-Voltaire, France...
...Emory University along with a small army of coaching technicians, sports psychologists, nutritionists and a chef. On noncompetition days, the girls worked out from 8:30 in the morning until 8:30 at night, returning to the dorm for a lunch break and a dose of their favorite soap, Days of Our Lives. "During the past year there's been some negative press about eating problems and everything like that," says Tracy. "This team is the opposite of that image. There wasn't any abuse here...
...this the Olympics or One Life to Live? The story of Vitali took almost as much time to tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972 Games, this year the mush quotient is out of control. The Dick Enberg Moment has become the tail wagging the dog. The spot on fencer Peter Westbrook prevailing over his humble beginnings ran four minutes, and we saw only three seconds of Westbrook actually jousting...
Perhaps we make a mistake to insist that the monarchy should be majestic. That is only one way for the royals to be exemplary. Homer's gods on Olympus, after all, played out elaborate soap operas of venality, stupidity, cruelty and greed. The Windsors, bearing up well under their hereditary burden of chinlessness and a tendency to run to twits, managed nonetheless to turn the saga of the stunningly unbright Duke and Duchess of Windsor into one of the century's great love stories. Perhaps Charles and Diana, in their follies, are simply enlarging the dramatic franchise of the family...
...Elizabeth Dole seem to have true grit in word and deed. If we were to elect Bob Dole to the presidency, the media would have to report on issues and solutions instead of the never-ending soap we have now. I like the idea of fewer little dinner parties and more shared thoughts and ideas. CONNIE SIMPSON Steamboat Springs, Colorado...