Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe Pitches (Director); University Choir; House Council; House Film Society; Melville Mathering Heights (House Soap Opera...
...happiest memories of their mothers are those that center on a childhood illness, when the boys dropped their fears of appearing unmanly and allowed themselves to be comforted unstintingly. "My mother would sit near my bed after she brought me lunch, and we'd listen to soap operas together," one man recalled. "When I went back to school, it was as if I'd been completely revitalized...
...more than 20 years, Luis Vigoreaux and Lydia Echevarría ranked as Puerto Rico's leading husband-and-wife show biz team−he as the island's top TV game-show host, she as his co-host and a favorite soap-opera actress. Then, early last year, their lives went awry. The couple were on the verge of divorcing, and Vigoreaux was planning to marry a younger woman. On Jan. 17 his charred body, which showed at least eleven stiletto-type stab wounds, was discovered stuffed in the trunk of his red Mercedes-Benz...
...dissipation and one last, long bout with the hard-rock life. The book concludes with a sermon compiled from various of Richard's exhortations: "[God] made Adam and Eve. Not Adam and Steve." And: "Take that Bible out of your trunk, and get up from those soap operas! Stop trying to watch Search for Tomorrow and search your Bible." Richard may not be making rock 'n' roll any more, but it's obvious the fire has not burned...
...generation of investigative reporters who must make do with imitation enemies lists (USIA), imitation graft (Japanese watches) and now imitation laundering (the Centre Street swap); a public so hungry it will accept fiction, if fact is in short supply (Washington politics has been honored with its own seamy TV soap opera); and some vengeful pols, mostly Republicans who suffered for years through the aftermath of Watergate and delight in the chance to do a little Woodward-Bernsteining themselves, now that they smell a smoking Democratic...