Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their- own category, with the soft-core pages of Penthouse sometimes supplemented by an X-rated videocassette Dad left lying around. The increasingly unfettered use of sex as a come-on in the mass media is a new and unsettling factor, overwhelming the young in stimulation -- soap operas, cable television, blatantly erotic ads for Obsession perfume. But apart from saying "watch" or "buy," these sensations offer no guiding context. Says Nancy Olin, teen- education coordinator for Boston Planned Parenthood: "The daytime soaps show constant and irresponsible sexual behavior: no waiting, very few morals...
Perhaps this is the place to note that Fresno is a spoof. In a prime-time soap- opera era of evil look-alikes, characters miraculously resurrected from the dead, and whole seasons that turn out to be dreams, it is hard to tell the parody from the real goods. Fresno tries to toss stink bombs at a genre that is probably impervious to anything short of nuclear annihilation. What's more, it does so in a format virtually unheard of on TV: a comedy mini-series. No multiparter has ever managed to sustain laughs for five consecutive nights. On purpose...
...member, got the word while being held at gunpoint in an elevator shaft. In the midst of shooting a segment of Search for Tomorrow, she was called into the producer's office. The news was sad but not unexpected: after 35 years on the air, longer than any other soap opera, her series was being canceled. Its fatal malady: low ratings...
Search for Tomorrow premiered on CBS in 1951, when Harry Truman was President and TV soaps squeezed all their traumas into 15-minute episodes. Set in the fictional town of Henderson, the show provided early roles for such actors as Jill Clayburgh, Lee Grant and Wayne Rogers, and was an anchor of CBS's top-rated daytime lineup of the 1950s and '60s. But ratings fell, and the soap was dropped by CBS in 1982, only to resurface on NBC. In a last-ditch ploy to revive interest, a devastating flood was ordered up in February, enabling a revamp...
...paper quoted Balfour, now stationed in Dubai, as saying, "It's very much accepted practice if one government gives a note to another saying that this is Joe Soap's official passport, we take their word for it and issue a visa...