Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beguiling drawl, Moynihan gives a superlative performance. Whether clothed in rags or in a silk robe, she mixes the pride and shame of a woman who knows she is a truer lady than those who only appear to be. She is a yielding Eliza, melting over a bowl of soap "smelling like primroses" but she is also a Liza quick to assert her own worth. "I'm a good girl, I am," Eliza repeatedly tells Higgins. And with a slip into the old accent or a beautifully rolled letter "r" that is a hint too beautifully rolled, Moynihan welds...
...seven of the top ten shows, including the first three: Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days and Charlie's Angels. It also has 13 of the leading 20. Soap the silly sex opera that drew criticism from moralists even before it went on the air is No. 8. CBS, by contrast, has only three in the first ten and five in the top 20. Worse, the new shows it had Counted on to help lift its ratings-Lou Grant and the Betty White Show-have failed by the usual yardsticks...
...death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew who he was, of course, and the record of his organization. But, personally, I didn't know the late Mr. Biko from a bar of soap. I think that [police] judgment may have been at fault. With a big administration, it is quite impossible for my office to control every single aspect [of operation], but that doesn't lessen my responsibility. There is a human element which no one in the world can really control...
...Harvard's administrators thought the contract dispute was only a reaction to Gorski's sandpapery personality they were clearly wrong. Even after Wyatt named William A. Lee, a personnel administrator in Buildings and Grounds, as acting chief in April, the talks still broke down more often than a soap-opera heroine and still show all the signs of clinical death. As last summer wore on, with both sides trading charges and the new contract still unsigned, it became evident that the real question was far more basic than mere personalities: Given Harvard's firm commitment to a force organized along...
...encourage viewers to be more discriminating in their TV habits can have the same result as that of the action recommended by TV executives who defend today's programming. Says Thomas Dargan, manager of the ABC station in Portland, Ore., who has been barraged with complaints about Soap "There is excellent alternative programming available-including the off button." To commercial TV's complaints about religious censorship, Parker responds, "You have a perfect right to say you don't want this coming into your living room. It's a matter of the public interest. Who else besides...