Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction, an understated screenplay, and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...same Old Happy, but there was one thing wrong: the voters had changed. His applause was coming from the familiar courthouse crowd who had long idolized him. But in Kentucky, which permits voting at 18, the electorate was shifting, and the old soft soap no longer washed well. Edward T. ("Ned") Breathitt Jr., 38, one of the rebels who had directed Combs's strategy, entered the Democratic primary against Chandler, matched him in folksy friendliness, and offered something more: a serious discussion of Kentucky finances, in which he claimed that education programs would suffer if the sales tax were...
...Hetty and the fortune she fostered raises some interesting psychological questions. What meaning, for instance, did money have for a woman who carried her cash-often only a few crumpled dollar bills-in a handbag tied around her waist? Who avoided taking a bath, probably in order to save soap, and who laboriously extracted "perfectly good nails" from a broken sled and saved them for some vague future use? Who spent half the night looking for a 2? postage stamp she had mislaid? At a time when Hetty maintained a $30 million cash bank balance, she was living...
Winning friends is no problem. The man intent on social conquest knows by subliminal heart that he need generally do no more than brush between meals or settle down with a stronger soap. At most, he has only to step up his vocabulary; sometimes it is simply a matter of developing more prominent pectoral muscles. It is how to lose friends that has become the contemporary American dilemma, and a tactical...