Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elliot) & Ray (Goulding) (Mon.-Fri. 5:45 p.m., NBC) are two comics from Boston's WHDH, relaxed but not tired in the TV manner, who moved into New York to give blunt, deadpan satires on soap opera, commercials (man-eating mulberry bushes) and "our contemporary way of life," all backed by hysterical organ music. Their spoofing and imitations are pleasantly homemade, but done at a professional pace...
...Reds last week were making frantic effort to whip up enthusiasm for the Korean "volunteer" action. They were trying hard to convince the Chinese people that the U.S. is their enemy. Mass meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists...
...commission seemed to feel that the ailment had been picked up largely from a lack of Canadian resistance to low-grade U.S. cultural germs such as soap operas, Hollywood banalities, pulp magazines and other commercialized peddling to mass tastes. Canada, the commissioners conceded, has gained much from the U.S. in higher culture (e.g., symphony broadcasts, Guggenheim fellowships, the better magazines, etc.). The question is whether she has gained too much for her own good...
...with visual demonstrations, optical slides, flap cards - selling methods that are still used, particularly on daytime TV. Then came the filmmakers, bringing with them animated cartoons by Walt Disney alumni, products that marched, skipped and jumped, filmed dramas cast with professional actors whose job it was to sell soap, automobiles, hand lotions and floor coverings...
...Whisker. In Mombasa, Kenya, Africa, a team of Sikhs, whose religion requires them to wear full beards, won a tug-of-war contest, solemnly accepted the prize: individual bowls of shaving soap...