Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently, thoughts of China seemed primarily to stimulate greed in Americans. Businessmen's dreams featured visions of one billion users of Ivory Soap and prophylactics. A National Geographic article in the 1920s spoke of the Chinese as demeaned outlets for American production. Unfortunately, public evaluation of such possibilities has lagged greatly behind that of businessmen, most of whom have come to realize that the Chinese consumer is likely to remain overwhelmingly rural and impoverished...
...direct the project, Paramount executives were convinced that they needed a general as much as an artist. They turned to Dan Curtis, 55. Though he had an unimpressive list of credits, including a couple of horror movies and the soap opera Dark Shadows, they felt sure that he had the passion, talent and physical stamina for the job. Wouk was put off by Curtis' record. Only after Paramount sent him two nonhorrific Curtis TV specials did the novelist agree to see him. "He came to my home, but he wasn't wearing the bar mitzvah suit I figured...
...ramble through the satellite night. Three basketball games fill the sports stations: one pro, one college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young man tap dancing as he undresses to the theme from Star Wars. Click...
...trend" story on the higher education beat last spring. Ever ready to set the record straight, I editorialized in The Crimson that the alleged realignment didn't extend much beyond the founding of a few right-wing periodicals, several with extensive outside encouragement and funding. Unable to resist the soap box, I also proclaimed that what seemed to be an indifferent undergraduate population actually concealed a politically aware "liberal" majority...
Clinical Psychologist Tom Cottle is television's sympathetic shrink. His weekly half-hour talk show, Tom Cottle: Up Close, is syndicated on 50 stations around the country, usually in the daytime hours when the schedule is awash in soap operas. Typical guests include such stars as Liv Ullmann, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller and Milton Berle. But a Merv Griffin he is not; no idle chitchat for Cottle, who oozes edge-of-the-chair empathy as he delves into his guests' hurts, histories, loves and divorces. Their upholstered chair might as well be a couch...