Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears that Turner will need more than one well- aimed rock to bring down CBS. Last week the company hurled back a tough rejoinder, offering to buy 21% of its stock for $955 million, or $150 a share. Speaking to stock analysts in a Manhattan studio where the soap opera As the World Turns used to be filmed, CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman announced that the company will give stockholders $40 a share in cash plus $110 a share in ten- year securities that pay 10.875% annual interest...
...Angeles carries a custom license plate that says SIE SIE LI, meaning, in Chinese, "thank you." Graffiti sprayed in a nearby park send their obscure signals in Farsi. A suburban supermarket specializes in such Vietnamese delicacies as pork snouts and pickled banana buds. The Spanish-language soap opera Tu o Nadie gets the top ratings among independent stations every night...
...mattress, one of about 30 lying in a row underneath the roaring traffic of Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway. Next to Villa's mattress stands a cardboard Perrier carton that contains most of his worldly possessions: a toothbrush, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a cracked and yellowing bar of soap, a flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market" on Sawtelle Boulevard and hangs around with other youths until someone drives up and offers him $30 for a day's work shoveling...
...Television Man," Byrne has even become a T.V. junkie. He satirizes boob tube addicts by explaining that even soap opera fantasies are fine with him because he and T.V. "are just good friends." It becomes evident, nonetheless, that a real T.V. man would never admit to being...
...magazine under the pen name Cindi Coeur, is having a sporadic affair with her editor Hildon and trying to figure out why her old friend Les dumped her. Lucy's summer is further disrupted by the arrival of her niece Nicole, a teenage star of the TV soap opera Passionate Intensity. Others follow in Nicole's sudsy wake, including a writer working on a novelization of Nicole's program and an artist making models for a Nicole doll that must go on the market soon, while the original is still famous...