Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next to balloons with the air let out, balloons ascended and dancers rose on tiptoe, balloons bobbed and floated while dancers circled and swayed. . . But after a while, the balloons stole the show, careening with the air going out like antic rockets, bumbling like a small child's blown soap bubbles, or clustered in dancers' hands like enormous molecular models. I don't recall what in particular the dancers looked like--their motions were minimal and forgettable. If the piece were intended to explore the commonality of motion between unlike objects, it ended by suggesting that balloons are more interesting...
Many flocked to the showers for a relaxing retreat with soap and water; some just dropped to the ground and drifted off to dreamland...
What makes Holocaust particularly fascinating is that it is an orthodox product of network television. The creation of veteran TV showmen, it is splintered by commercial breaks and loaded with soap-opera plot devices designed to make the audience tune in each night. Yet Holocaust demonstrates that TV's built-in limitations can become assets: they can make difficult material more accessible to a mass audience. It is hard to imagine Holocaust being so effective in another format. Were the show exhibited in movie theaters, no one would sit still for its 9½-hour running time. Were...
...clouds really began to lower when Ditchley started his own business. His lawyers practically lived with him, filing taxes, dealing with pension plans, dodging safety inspectors and responding (in triplicate) to 12,472 government questionnaires dealing with things like the number of soap spigots in the washrooms and the ratio of three-toed dwarfs he employed relative to their number in the total population. Ditchley was becoming, frankly, a little paranoid on the subject of lawyers. His sister's divorce didn't help...
Faithful followers of sporting soap opera will recall that, when last we saw the New York Yankees, they were flush with World Series victory but scarcely aglow with brotherly love. Catcher-Captain Thurman Munson, the man who hated Reggie Jackson's top-catting, wanted to be traded to Cleveland, a move that only an Akron, Ohio, native could cherish. Starting Pitcher Ed Figueroa, snubbed in the Series rotation, emptied his locker and departed before the champagne was uncorked. Amidst the celebration, Owner George Steinbrenner barely managed to conceal the pink slip he had prepared for Manager Billy Martin. Series...