Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visiting Bill Walton's mom and dad, the notorious Marvin "Bad News" Barnes taking off on another binge, the team trainer enduring the petty humiliations. Halberstam traveled the entire season with the Blazers and it shows. He knows the patterns of big league life--the hotels, the planes, the soap operas (both televised and intramural)--and the reader's appreciation of the game is richer for it. The basketball story, plus the profiles and the assorted other history, make The Breaks of the Game a quick and zesty read for even a casual...
...sexpot, and one is a screwball. The tangled web of relationships they weave possesses sprightly humor, zany logic, folksy warmth and a tincture of poignancy. The author's first full-length play and a Pulitzer prizewinner, Crimes of the Heart is a kind of in-depth soap opera that reveals character even as it unravels situations...
...clowns" line. Case closed. One of the few exceptions to this tendency is his clear opposition to foolhardy American adventurism abroad, particularly in response to "raging communism." Yet he balances this point of view with a childishly xenophobic portrayal of the Soviets and Chinese, who barely grasp concepts like soap and water and uniformly adhere to their government's propaganda about the outside world...
...sign up in weeks to come. CBS, which likes to think of itself as the "Tiffany Network," is staking its money and its considerable prestige on . market surveys indicating that millions of Americans are as interested in Bach as in baseball and are just as fascinated by that early soap opera about the House of Atreus as they are by that later one in Dal las. One statistic that particularly intrigued the network's officials: between 1976 and 1979, ticket sales for what might be called high culture - theater, dance, opera and symphony - jumped from 44 million...
...young successors, Rick Fletcher, and Allan Collins, after "46 years, two months and 21 days on the job." But he is grumpy about the current strip. Says Gould: "I drew it as a law-and-order exercise from the start. But today Tracy has become part of a soap opera, and I don't care for it very much...