Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will young Jodie go through with his sex-change operation and marry a football player? Will Cousin Corinne continue bedding down the local tennis pro, despite hard-breathing competition from her mother? Will Father Flotsky modernize the Mass by substituting Oreo cookies for the traditional wafers? And will Soap, the new ABC comedy that features all these characters, be a TV sensation this September...
...growing legion of kitchen-table entrepreneurs who are turning the newsletter business, the last cottage industry of publishing, into a respectable and highly lucrative branch of journalism. Hardly any activity nowadays is without benefit of a newsletter, from Abortion Trends to Zoo's Letter. Aficionados of cartoons and soap operas have their typewritten grapevines, as do owners of Pet Rocks, fans of Evelyn Waugh and students of the Kondatrieff wave theory of economics. Circulations range from a few dozen to 430,000, for the 54-year-old Kiplinger Washington Letter; subscriptions cost anywhere from nothing...
...concentration would not hold, so he decided to close up his books for the night. He gathered up his soap, towel, toothbrush, and water mug and wandered out of his room down the hall towards the bathroom to wash...
...Soap--Proposition Theater...
...video sets hardly command one's attention, and the taped narrative leaves a vague impression beside the vividness of the dance action. (Words with dance are curious--the way words make sense springs from a rhythm so different from the logic of dance that they pass by like soap-opera dialogue, which probably is half their purpose.) In the second section, with the projection equipment shut off, the three dancers begin to emerge as distinct personalities: Connie Chin flirts with a fold-up chair, Tom Krusinky with a push skooter, and Lise Newcomer with her own silk dressing gown...