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Word: soaped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...break from studying for your Science B-29 midterm with a trip to the Harvard Film Archive to see Dustin Hoffman’s gender-bending “Tootsie.” The 1982 film classic features Hoffman as a scheming out-of-work actor who becomes a soap star—as a woman. $8 Regular $6 Students, Faculty and Staff, Senior Citizens 7 p.m. Carpenter Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...usual saccharine sitcom slop, and the plotlines—mostly concerning the desperations and desires of a group of wealthy suburban mothers—are clever and engaging. Despite its flaws, the show’s mix of quirk and charm makes it (for now) the best primetime soap this side of premium cable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gadfly: The Week in Buzz | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

...candidates are not the only ones anxious about strong women today. TV executives are too, after the out-of-nowhere success of the No. 1 new series Desperate Housewives. ABC's dark-humored soap suggests that all is not well on Venus in 2004 - and that you underappreciate women at your peril, in TV and in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury of Women Scorned | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

Life lurches from sweet and fresh to embarrassing and awful (much like adolescence). The story lines are bad teen-soap retreads--Ben has a fling with a teacher, and Dino catches his mother having an affair, both plots straight from Dawson's Creek Season 1. But its characters are much more believable--Dino, Ben and Jonathan aren't miniature adults, they're kids. When Dino finds his mom cheating, he's not just angry; he's scared, above all for his dad (D.B. Sweeney), a good-hearted sad sack who hates his pencil-pushing job. Fox's The O.C. transcended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hear It from the Boys | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...impressions growing up," as Neufeld notes. Suddenly relaxed, Neufeld opens up to the serendipitous nature of travel and feels content. Other adventures include the exploration of a vast cave, where he faces his mortality, and his appearance as an extra on the "New York" set of a Singapore soap opera, where he finds his own culture as the foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Shangri-La | 10/2/2004 | See Source »

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