Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, the plot is hard to get involved in, especially in the breakneck opening minutes. The love scenes, although competently acted, are so flatly written that they lack emotional intensity, a defect that the lush, quasi-operatic score only partly makes up for. In the script's soap-opera view of life, sexual passion and jealousy drive even political revolutions. And there are echoes of the worst musical of the 1980s, the Shroud of Turin howler Into the Light, in the finale: red-and-gold-robed chorines try to explain the Asian religious concept of karma in lines seemingly lifted...
...SOAP IN NEW PACKAGES...
These races showed that, given a chance, disgusted voters would readily spurn both parties. But they were not eager to gamble on political unknowns: the winners were familiar former officeholders who had cast off their Republican labels to repackage themselves as independents. Same soap, new box. Connecticut's Lowell Weicker Jr., a three-term G.O.P. Senator who lost his seat in 1988, made a name for himself as a party maverick who battered Richard Nixon during Watergate and stood up to Ronald Reagan on contra aid, Star Wars and tax policy. With their state in a recession, Connecticut voters were...
...role is described in phrases like "Paley agreed instantly" and "Paley loved the idea.") Smith's workmanlike prose fails to give her main character the fascination of either his triumphs or his flaws. It is, perhaps, the quintessential TV story. Not heroic epic, not tragic drama; just a good soap opera...
Imports of industrial goods, raw materials and machinery have been reduced by 90%, according to State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler. Shortages of imported lubricants, spare parts and chemicals are causing production difficulties. Bread, sugar and soap are being rationed...