Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of man." Watergate had both its grubbiness and its universality. It was a quagmire and a catharsis. It was a mystery story with splendidly bizarre obscurities of plot. It was a national psychodrama, a spectacle of immense power that the Senate committee hearings dramatized as a daytime soap. (Viewers actually called in to the television networks to suggest changes of script or pace, as though they were indeed watching a political serial...
...POINTLESS to preach that fans of this real-life soap opera should find something better to do with their time. Did the two former Waltham patients decide to press fabricated charges years after hazily remembered run-ins with Hussain only because the learned that he had been convicted of the gang-rape? Was the drunken affair in Rockport a matter among consenting adults, as Hussain and this co-defendants claim, or was it a violent and horrible crime? The latter verdict was "guilty," but members of that jury have since said they had never understood the formal charges and only...
THEROUX'S INCLINATION is obvious. Not particularly interested in the suburban soap-opera life of America or the decaying, over-exploited one of Europe, he has taken to the more exotic of the world's climates and locales. From the chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul...
DIED. Brenda Benet, 36, who played the scheming, neurotic Lee Dumonde in the TV soap opera Days of Our Lives, and was the ex-wife of Actor Bill Bixby (The Incredible Hulk); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head; in Los Angeles...
...scandal had all the ingredients of a prime-time television soap opera...