Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keep soap operas in the family. Of all the flops of last fall, perhaps the most unexpected was ABC's Paper Dolls. Set in the chic world of New York modeling, the series seemed expertly designed to satisfy the audience's yen for opulent-looking trash. But viewers responded with a gigantic yawn. The show's failure must have caused some nervous gulps at rival NBC, which was busily preparing a glossy soap set in the chic world of New York retailing. Oops...
Television has Call to Glory, a sort of military soap about a fighter pilot and his family in the Kennedy era. The Right Stuff was not enough to give Senator John Glenn the Democratic nomination, but it was a fine glorification of the early days of the American space program...
...flow as the Ganges, sometimes crashing through rapids, more often meandering into tributaries, Jewel does on occasion get bogged down in its own complexities. In the middle episodes, when the action closes in on Layton and four other mem-sahibs, the show could be mistaken for a provincial soap opera, and a brackish one at that. Sometimes too it parades a kind of sincerity that teeters on melodrama. Symbols are spelled out, symmetries underlined, characters displayed with embarrassing nakedness. Merrick never tires of proclaiming his lower-class origins, and Kumar commits such lines as "I hate ... most of all myself...
...first attracted by the promise of closer shaves. Shoe Salesman Marte Mejstrik, 27, of Lincoln, Neb., tried Clinique's "allergy tested" shaving formula on his sensitive skin; it worked so well he went on to a variation of the twice-a-day, three-step regimen of complexion soap, "scruffing lotion" and moisturizer. Special creams like Solutions for Men shave gel complete with aloe vera sell for $7.50 for 3 oz., compared with $1.59 for a 7-oz. can of Gillette Foamy. The new products "give smoother results because they contain more lubricating emollients and fewer air bubbles than most...
Here we go again; another four years of our national soap opera, with Reagan playing the lead role. But how will the script end, with a whimper or a bang...