Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teachers talk about proper eating habits and cleanliness in the class-rooms," he points out, "but when the lunch bell rings the fastidious lad who tries to wash his hands finds no soap or towels in a filthy little washroom, and there is barely time to bolt his food down and return even if he makes a track start at the door...
Critic. In Clinton, Iowa, impetuous Ezra Adams explained to a judge that irritation at a soap opera had prompted him to 1) ram his fist through the family radio, 2) hack the set to matchwood with a hammer, 3) hurl eggs at random around the room...
...funny and intelligent show, and hearteningly optimistic about radio's future, even when one remembers the sponsors and those 20 million soap-opera addicts...
There are also some painfully accurate re-enactments, and a parody of singing commercials ("Consolidated sardines-America's delight," etc.) which could never be too broad for its model. A dullard on a quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...
...knew that he had written a bestseller. He predicted, in jest, a sale of 30,000,000 copies (just about it). Biographer Bell, with other critics, observes that this bland and spacious masterpiece is less simple than it seems. More than a satire on medieval romances, which were the soap operas of Cervantes' age, it leads even the earthy Sancho Panza into a subtly dizzying identification of reality and dream...