Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution successfully that in 1979 and 1980 von Bulow tried to made, his wife in the New port mansion because he wanted to collect her 14 million inheritance-and because he had fallen in love with a soap opera star who reportedly told von Bulov that he would have to choose "either...
...popular nighttime soap opera, Dynasty, ended last week's episode with typical edge-of-the-seat melodrama. In a scuffle aboard a private plane, Blake Carrington and Daniel Reece (John Forsythe and Rock Hudson) accidentally knocked the pilot unconscious, sending their craft hurtling toward the ; mountains below. Their fate, in the manner of TV cliffhangers, rested in the hands of the network...
...successes in the late '70s were not limited to prime time. The network's soap operas (General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live) made it No. 1 in the daytime ratings by emphasizing younger characters, livelier story lines and more elaborate production values than its rivals on CBS and NBC. Good Morning America, which was launched in 1975 with an upbeat mix of news, features and talk, replaced NBC's then 29-year-old Today in 1980 as the early-morning pacesetter. In the same era, ABC's News division became a full-fledged rival...
...aspiring philosopher as the horny teenager, a kind of Voltaire with a two hour-long hormone overdose. Let other high school chums compare the relative merits of different Ray-Ban tints or Coppertone 6 versus Coppertone 4, but Gib still savors the meaning in life "Who invented liquid soap and why?" No talk of etching or astrological signs in his romantic approaches; witness his favorite pickup line: "Imagine a sexual experience so intense it could potentially change your political views...
Books, he dislikes. But soap operas are his passion, particularly The Young and the Restless, on which he played a small role two summers ago. During an annual trip, Gretzky also enjoys low-rolling in Las Vegas. The casino swallows him for days. Otherwise, hockey has been absorbing. "I don't have a whole lot of time for anything else. I play the game." He likens the N.H.L. to a university, and calls hockey the study of geometry. "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck...