Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tale came to a close in one of those rituals of shared planetary theater: a joining of tragedy and gossip in universal soap opera. But whatever emotional residue lingered as the world dried its eyes, two slightly hard-edged questions presented themselves in another part of the brain. The questions were not necessarily unkind. They were churned up by the undercurrent of sadness and disgust and fatalism that ran through one's thoughts on hearing the news from Paris that night, and in the days that followed...
...presence of their idols, one scream leading to another, one pair of panties thrown onstage soon leading to a storm of votive lingerie. It is partly resentment against the in-laws. Despite late damage limitation from the palace, many Britons see the British royal family as villains in this soap opera, stuffy and reactionary guardians of an old order into which Diana came as a lovely catalyst, only to be spurned as young heroines so often...
...they are dead, within a week, and one wonders how to grasp what has been lost. In a way, their deaths are the ending to two stories. Princess Diana's was the less significant but the more enthralling, a royal soap opera played by real people suffering real pain. When she was killed, her story was curtailed, and the silence that followed was overwhelming. One reason that masses stood in lines all over the world is that they knew a story they yearned to hear, and thought would go on, was over...
...Trade Center bombing or the Los Angeles quake barely registered a 3 rating. "My sense is it's just about a big a thing as you can get," says TIME National Correspondent Richard Zoglin. "Diana was the most famous person in the world. Her life was kind of a soap opera, and the ending was classic soap opera." Only this soap was for real, and that stark reality touched everyone who sat open-mouthed in front of a TV set or computer screen this weekend. Their only comfort: that millions of others were grieving...
...Meier's prescient reporting, including a prediction last spring that Mir was star-crossed, has won him few friends in the Russian space community. Annoyed by Meier's detailed accounts of the debacles, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov once growled at him, "The West must understand that this isn't a soap opera...