Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Surfline are increasing faster than a Valley Girl's phone bill. The number of such hot lines operating in the U.S. has doubled in the past year, to 3,800, offering a growing Touch-Tone emporium of services ranging from the practical to the kinky. Customers can call for soap- opera updates, used-car prices, stock quotes, sex fantasies or rock-concert schedules. Prices run from as little as 50 cents a call to nearly $5 for the first minute. Total revenues are expected to reach $450 million this year, up 50% from 1987. While the industry has already encountered...
President and Family D. Jeremiah "It's Huge" Barron '89 H. Bogart "I'm Dying" Barron '81-'88 Reporters: A. Jonathan "Dude" Bates '90 K. Elaine "Macrame" Bliss '90 C. Francis "I'm staying in the VDT room" Boyle '90 S. Beth "Soap Opera" Glasser '90 T. Ann "Counter weighs move" Mullin '90 J. Ricardo "Let's Go" Varela '90 Photo Editor: D.K. "The Tog" Eldan '89 Business Manager King Henry III and the City of Buffalo
...first few scenes are klutzy; Romero has never been the subtlest director of actors. But once he gets past the early exposition, he takes energized control of the subject (his script is based on Michael Stewart's novel) and gets a tough-minded turn from Beghe, his soap opera-handsome young star. Beghe must show all Allan's suicidal anxieties, homicidal anger and heroic resourcefulness while strapped in a wheelchair. His finger can hardly move, but his performance does, splendidly...
Larry and Joy Nelson's Fundamentalist Christian faith imposes strict rules on their children. What they watch on television is strictly monitored: no soap operas, no shows with a hint of sex. The children will not be allowed to date until 16, even though many girls in Nancy's seventh grade already wear boys' rings...
Food, fashion and network attitudes have changed since then -- but, oddly, not that much. Several Hispanic stars have made it to the medium's mainstream, among them Jimmy Smits, of L.A. Law, and A Martinez, the Latino heartthrob of NBC'S soap opera Santa Barbara. And a few prime-time series, from Chico and the Man through I Married Dora, have featured Hispanic characters and themes. But in contrast to their achievements in the other arts, Hispanics are still waiting for their La Bamba breakthrough...