Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family birthday party, a charity benefit and a shoot for a Good Morning America segment. "Erma is a truly inventive, comic force, mugging continually, swatting one-liners everywhere," he says. "When she is on the phone, she is on the phone. Lunch is funny. The guest-bathroom soap is funny. Even the imminent house guests are funny...
...advanced Spanish class, for example, spends an entire semester watching Latin American soap operas via satellite in order to study the dialects and cultural idiosyncracies of Hispanic society, Rivers says...
...seen before. Manny and Suzy's loud and often violent fights worried many people in the dorm, but it was Jeff who seemed scarred by it all. "I had never seen anyone deal with each other like that," Jeff recalls now. "All I could compare it with was the soap operas I had seen as a teenager. I don't understand how two people can be so caring one day, and so violent the next...
...sheer longevity of the Kennedy melodrama is astonishing. Some Americans have grown weary of the spectacle, of course, the high American soap opera verging now and then upon Greek tragedy, and of the cruelly ingenious turns that the story takes. But there is something fascinating and emblematic about the family still. For a long time it dramatized the American possibilities of self-invention-old Joe Kennedy by sheer will contriving to raise up a President, to start a dynasty. But after Joe Jr., and John, and Robert, the darker, the converse American principle intruded upon the drama, the principle that...
When the troops began to call the townsfolk "Bennies" (after a good-natured but dim-witted character on a popular British soap opera), the islanders picked up the name, which they now use more often than the time-honored "Kelpers" (after the seaweed that they once harvested). Locals, in turn, call the British soldiers "Whennies" because of their tendency to go on at boring length about the time "when I was in Belfast" or "when I was on Cyprus." Although occasional fistfights break out on Saturday nights in Port Stanley's pubs, an officer notes that "relations with...