Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking on so uneventful a screenplay and for composing such ugly shots. Petri used the technicians and the cameraman who worked with Antonioni on Red Desert. He has proven how effectively a film-maker can nullify such technical contributions by composing his images with the carelessness of a soap-opera director...
Group Therapy. In the beginning, his career was more soap than grand opera; for the first year he and his wife Bettye, a former model, lived in the laundry room of an apartment house and subsisted on a diet of potatoes. At length he got a chance in 1961 to sing at the Bayreuth Festival, home of the heldentenor, where he was hailed as a "flawless" Parsifal. Last year he became one of the few U.S. tenors ever to sing at Milan's La Scala opera house. "The Italians," he explains simply, "love...
...African state can. In the capital city of Conakry, the nationalized Printania store displays empty shelves, broken windows, and East European canned goods (gulyás, pickled pork, beans), as well as toy Chinese Communist trucks at $8 apiece and East German pliers for $4. Women queue up for soap powder, tin buckets and sandals cut from old bicycle tires...
Summarized, Zhivago's plot sounds like any conventional saga of Red Star-crossed lovers who meet, part, and meet again at all the crossroads of history. But if this be soap opera-and in some measure it is-the suds are set into motion by an impressive cast. As the poet-physician Zhivago, Sharif embodies both wounded sensibility and the simple, stubborn faith that a man need not sell heart and soul to prove his love of country. Julie Christie, frankly passionate and vulnerable as Lara, proves again that she is a vital presence on the screen. Steiger...
Millions of American housewives daily stop in front of a supermarket shelf and pick up a bar of Ivory soap, a box of Tide or Cheer, a package of Duncan Hines Cake Mix, a bottle of Clorox or Mr. Clean. For the maker of all these products, the Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, the pickings add up to sales of more than $2 billion a year and profits that reached $133.2 million in the fiscal year ended last June. P. & G. dwarfs its closest rivals, Colgate-Palmolive Co. (1964 sales: $806.6 million) and Lever Bros. Co. ($436.4 million...