Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxious not to lose her money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through her own excesses. Von Bülow, they say, had no need of her money, since he was capable...
...book is divided into three sections, entitled "Belongings," "Surroundings" and "Ourselves." The individual essays are similarly titled, usually with single word labels. "Soap," "Jeans," "Advertising," "Hotels," "Fences," "D-Day," and so on Rooney role of the Average Joe, some kind of twentieth-century Every man, pointing out all the little things we never notice about ourselves. His humor relies on his audience saying "Hee, Hee, why didn't I think of that?" All too often, though, the answer to that question is "I didn't think about that because it's a pretty stupid things to think about...
...Soap was in such short supply that a doctor complained in a weekly newspaper that physicians were unable to wash their hands properly. New mothers were discharged from hospitals after only a day for fear that their babies might contract an infection if they stayed longer. Indeed, because of the poor diet, the lack of medicines and even rudimentary hygienic supplies, the population was suffering from an epidemic of viruses...
...playing like a television soap opera, with each day seeming to bring a new twist, a fresh revelation. The drama starring National Security Adviser Richard Allen is dragging into its fourth week, and the fact that it lasted so long without fading away was becoming its most important feature. Nothing has been proved. Nothing has been disproved. But a whiff of impropriety hangs in the air. That troublesome scent was enough to force Allen out, at least temporarily: on Sunday Allen announced he was taking an "administrative leave" from his job, effective immediately, for the duration of the Justice Department...
...hero of Author Larry Woiwode's third novel is Ned O'Rourke, an aging actor who has spent twelve years playing a lovable, Bible-quoting old coot named Poppa John on a TV soap opera. For reasons not entirely clear, the producers have killed off Poppa John, the show's most popular character. It is now the Christmas season, and Ned, despite all those years of six-figure salaries, is suddenly worried about how to scratch together $200 for the January rent on his Manhattan apartment. He has become too famous as Poppa John to get other...