Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princess and the Photographer (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A slice of what former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge describes as the great royal soap opera: the story of Princess Margaret from childhood to the pomp and ceremony preceding her marriage to Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones...
They may have slightly different formulas, but essentially all cigarettes are the same." What makes the difference is flavor ?each company has its secret recipe?and heavy advertising. The tobacco industry is the nation's fourth biggest advertiser (after food, autos, soap), spends more than $200 million a year. Reynolds has the biggest budget (more than $50 million), gets more benefit from it by concentrating only on its three top brands...
...families got all choked up with fellow-feeling. But by then the play itself was choked with clumsy staging, clumsier plotting and pleas for tolerance. The pleas were well meant, but the tragedy seemed as ill-founded as the bigotry, and a few sharp moments were lathered into a soap opera that closed at week...
...what is lacking in the pines." All manner of things happen to the author's creatures; Ko pitches a perfect game, King Amaranth decides that England's girls should undrape too, and several characters turn into statues. Analyzing these events is no more profitable than dissecting a soap bubble, or trying to explain a minor character named Higby, who "wears a wig be-/Cause he has no hair at all beneath/The wig he wears because he has no hair." The reader recognizes Koch's Ko as good comedy...
...killed by a burst of carbine fire. He has twice disarmed gunmen who attacked him and is fatalistically prepared to end either as President of the Philippines or victim of an assassin. "My father was murdered," says Lacson, "and my grandfather was killed by slipping on a cake of soap. I may go either...