Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quasimodo probably had it. Digger Barnes of the television soap opera Dallas has developed the symptoms. In real life the most famous victim was John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed "Elephant Man," who became a sought-after celebrity in Victorian England...
...DESIGNER Derek McLane has a fascinating concept in the slanting plank floor and versatile wooden rhombus platform that defines the scene. But his imitation of a forest looks more like one of those soap machines that scrapes across your windshield at a roll-up-the-windows car wash. McLane's platform, moreover, makes for awkward inter-scene set changes, with podiums, benches and other pieces of furniture rolling down the platform and jerking to a stop (as the audience counts its lucky stars). Light designer Rachel Pasch has done an adequate, if not sterling job, fighting as she has with...
...producers of the show, called "Soap Operas Go to College," came to Harvard to see whether students at Ivy League schools are interested in soap opera courses and whether they watch the daytime programs, Cross said...
...Harvard students are watching, it means everyone is watching," she said. "It the future leaders of America are watching, what does it mean for society in the 1980s?" she added. About 20 to 20 million people--20 per cent of them males--watch soap operas in the United States, Witty said...
Students at the meeting said they would take a soap opera course if Harvard offered it only if it did not conflict with their favorite programs. "I would definitely take it unless they offered it opposite 'One Life to Live'," Rohan said. Another student said he feels "almost sacrilegious" missing an episode...