Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assure a maximum turnout, the authorities banned liquor sales a day before the voting, rescheduled soccer matches and postponed a popular television soap opera until five minutes after the polls had closed. In rural areas, entire villages, in a swirl of colorful peasant costumes, dutifully trooped to local election halls behind brass bands. In the northwestern hamlet of Szczecinek, voting was temporarily disrupted when a woman gave birth to a healthy son beside the ballot box. In Walesa's hometown of Gdansk, 3,000 people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed...
Still, President Reagan appeared to welcome the Soviet proposal, sounding even a bit more optimistic than some of his advisers. "Everything they are saying represents a change in their position," the President declared expansively to reporters at an impromptu press conference held in a soap factory near Cincinnati, where he had flown last week as part of his lonely crusade on behalf of tax reform. The President, in fact, has seemed somewhat more detached than usual from the details of foreign policy while making repeated forays on behalf of a tax plan most people appear to have forgotten. He also...
Crimson--President. Crimson--Sports Editor. JV Tennis Team. Mathering Heights soap opera...
...highlight, in particular, the eccentric habits of white middle America: middle-class, middle-aged individuals suspended between "Tips From the Beauty Stars" security measures and childish rebellion. When the glib young Julian, Macon's editor, sails into Macon's sister Rose's life, setting her spinster sensibilities spinning with soap opera fantasies, the rest of the family is threatened by the stranger's intentions to make himself at home...
...typical exchange, Arthur laments that she is growing old: "I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of myself and almost had a heart attack. There was this old woman staring me in the face." White, after a pause: "Who was it?" Writer-Producer Susan Harris (Soap) created this dehumanized joke machine, which manages to get through its entire 30-minute pilot without a single credible moment...