Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title alone is provocative: Soap-Powders and Detergents. Will this be some arch exercise with dancers dressed up as bubbles or boxes? A soggy bit of social criticism? A spoof on Balanchine's Snowflake Waltz in The Nutcracker? No, Mark Morris' latest creation, commissioned by Dance Umbrella of Cambridge, Mass., is a lighthearted, structurally elegant look at washday...
...minutes and stayed on the air for more than five hours; each returned later for an hour-long prime-time special. (The commercial-free coverage cost the networks an estimated $9 million in lost advertising revenue. ABC switchboards also fielded more than 1,200 complaints about pre-empted soap operas...
...networks also drew some criticism for constant replays of the shuttle explosion and premature speculation about the long-range consequences of the accident. But most of it seemed necessary. "What else could we do?" said Brokaw. "We couldn't go back to soap operas or game shows. People wanted answers, as many as they could get." Added CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter: "People didn't sit in front of their sets simultaneously. We had to keep showing it (the explosion scene) because there were new people constantly joining the audience...
Well, call me a cop-out. And give me some soap...
...graceful music. (Still to come: Jack Nicholson reading Kipling's Just So Stories and Cher doing The Ugly Duckling.) A video version of The Macmillan Illustrated Almanac for Kids is an intriguing hodgepodge of informational segments on such diverse topics as why volcanoes happen and how to blow huge soap bubbles...