Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a sabbatical. This week, after more than two decades away from medicine, he is returning to research in clinical psychology, as a fellow at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. His goal, he explains, is to create something of permanence. Says he: "I am tired of making a soap bubble, watching it shine with iridescence, then having it explode while I am left with a soapy scum to say plaintively, 'You should have been here a moment ago: it was so nice...
...Coup de Foudre, French Film Maker Diane Kurys (Peppermint Soda) etched an acute, critical portrait of her own family in the early 1950s and drew splendid performances from Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Chantal Akerman, a Belgian director whose monumental minimalist soap opera, the 1975 Jeanne Dielman, has made her queen of the European film avantgarde, confounded all expectations with a sprightly, witty musical called The '80s. The Cannes audience came to snooze and stayed to cheer...
Behind the tantrums and soap-opera posturing was the question of who would govern the city for the next four years. Says Washington, 61, who was elected on April 12 with 51.8% of the vote: "It appears that some members of the city council are apparently experiencing a nervous reaction to the prospect of reform." Shortly after the election, at what was supposed to be a "unity" breakfast, Washington had confided some of his reform notions to Vrdolyak. As might have been predicted, the city's craftiest politician did not respond eagerly to the news that he would...
...tried to catch unwitting people in mortifying circumstances, while The Newlywed Game prodded one spouse to air the other's dirty laundry. Most of the clips on Life's Most Embarrassing Moments were outtakes and slip-ups from TV shows such as Three's Company and Soap. Although the "embarrassing moments" were meant to be backstage revelations, somehow more "real" than the smooth, neatly edited programming they disrupted, they seemed instead to be unabashedly calculated...
...flat and occasionally a skit is lost before it ever gets off the ground, but that's the beauty--and the risk--of a live performance, And the infrequent bumbles are more than made up for by the group's strongest pieces. One standout is the Melrod-penned Shakespearean soap opera called "Most Grievous Hospital," which is rendered in Elizabethan rhyming couplets from the introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy...