Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves) and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though...
What do women want? Madison Avenue used to think soap and cake mixes. But these days, who bakes...
...tabloid dubbed the scandal the GRAND OLE SOAP OPRY, as Nashvillians cringed in embarrassment. After Boner's divorce from Betty and marriage to Peel, the city's mortification peaked when the Boners appeared on Phil Donahue's TV show to discuss, among other matters, the mayor's alleged sexual prowess. Boner also played harmonica while a rambunctious Peel sang Rocky Top. Donahue rightly charged that Boner's conduct came "very close to giving the finger" to Nashville. And Nashville seemed ready by last week to reciprocate. Unfortunately, Boner's constituents have found that the city charter fails to provide...
...Gorbachev began to speak, however, his proposal had become a lightning rod for protest from radical reformers. In a week in which the Soviet President had won the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the world, he was fated to be awarded criticism at home for not worrying enough about soap and bread...
...between affairs. It has the odd quality of being funny and well written, despite an occasional outbreak of coupling adverbs ("passionately, tenderly"). But it is utterly unmemorable. The author can't seem to care much about her heroine, a pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets are either too strong or too weak, never just right. In fact, the reader decides, the men are handsome fakes, big-jawed 42 regulars snipped from a Ralph Lauren...