Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOW. With only a passing nod to Mad magazine, this revue satirizes TV kiddie shows, soap-flake operas, sportscasters, recording stars. It has more jaw than teeth, but the show is amusing, thanks to a cast of remarkable impersonators...
...market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...
...road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make it all but impassable from October to May, and the right-of-way is often usurped by two-ton rhinos, herds of elephant and lions basking...
...Teeth. A different kind of goat is involved in the Mad Show- the goat that satirists always hope to make out of such national pastimes as soap-flake TV operas, movie epics, ad jingles. The result: a kind of pleasant-evening-was-had-by-all occasion...
...mighty little that churches will not present these days for the greater glory of God. Last week CBS put on an hour-long concert of ecclesiastical jazz by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, video-taped at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Southern Baptists, besides their soap-operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers...