Word: soaped
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Australia came clean last week about a television soap opera that had offended Malaysia and damaged diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries. In Kuala Lumpur, Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans called on the show's main critic, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and delivered a letter from Prime Minister Bob Hawke that Malaysian officials described as a virtual apology...
...soap opera, Embassy, chronicles the goings-on at the Australian embassy in a fictional nation in Southeast Asia called Ragaan, which Mahathir contends is an unflattering version of his country. Since the program began appearing on television last fall, Malaysia has protested by reducing diplomatic and social contact with Australian officials and encouraging an informal "Buy Australian Last" campaign...
Marshall's detractors called him an indifferent Justice, prone to watching television in his chambers. (He once assured his friend Justice William Brennan you could learn a lot about life from soap operas.) By most accounts Marshall had spotty interest in areas of the law beyond civil rights, criminal law and free expression. But despite poor health in recent years -- his eyesight is failing, he wears a hearing aid, and he broke his hip in a fall last year -- he was determined to keep his seat as long as the likely replacement was another conservative nominee. With cantankerous tongue...
...When Nixon implored his old friend and Secretary of State William Rogers to order the resignation of White House aides John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, caught up in the Watergate scandal, Rogers refused, telling Nixon he should do it himself. There followed one of the age's grand political soap operas, with teary meetings, prayers and arguments. But Nixon did it. Later he would recall the words of Britain's heroic Prime Minister William Gladstone: "The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher...
...Here is the Pagnol family: father Joseph (Philippe Caubere), a schoolteacher; mother Augustine (Nathalie Roussel), a seamstress; little Marcel (Benoit Martin, then Julien Ciamaca), a serious, curious child who reads everything he can find, from cookbooks to soap wrappers. In the first hour of My Father's Glory -- the most luminous part of either film, or of any film since charm went out of fashion -- Joseph anxiously faces a new teaching job, Augustine gives birth to a second son (Victorien Delmare), and Marcel's maiden aunt (Therese Liotard) meets her future husband (Didier Pain) while walking Marcel in the park...