Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were Richard's financial problems, Mrs. Bridges' pots of tea, Hudson's growing dismay at a changing world, and Hazel's pained middle-class presence in a household of extremes. There were also suffragettes and soldiers, flappers and footmen, love and death. It was grand soap opera, of course, but it sandblasted as often as it bubbled. It gave up more vivid characters, through plotted deaths and departures, than most TV series ever introduce. To all concerned, Ta. Paul Gray
...meek and passive. Women ogle waiters and crack bad jokes about sex while their male companions sit and fume. Imagine all that and you know most of what you need to know -or want to know-about All That Glitters, Norman Lear's new syndicated TV soap opera, premiering on 40 stations across the country this week...
...Jackson figure, ex-Pro Foot baller Bernie Casey goes in for heavy brooding and glowering. Vonetta Mc-Gee drifts in and out with all the serenity of a model in a soap commercial and with none of the biting intellectuality of Angela Davis. (We know the lady is classy, however, because during a scene at her home Vivaldi is ostentatiously being played on the phonograph.) Whether the performers could have done more is hard to tell with a script as one-dimensional as this. Like so many other recycling jobs. Brothers ends up as cardboard...
Percy elevates the stuff of soap opera to a medieval morality tale. The parallels between Arthurian chivalry, Southern gentility and Christian militancy are in fact a single strand in Percy's fabric. He is a severely and sincerely Christian novelist who may speak from the fictional mouth of a potential madman to acknowledge the difference between a Cassandra and a crank...
...Martin Kilson, there are very few Afro-Americans who can afford to hide in the soap-bubble sanctuary of Harvard tenure and launch attacks against those who are acting for change. What have you done for Afro-American students in your years here, Prof. Kilson? How are you tackling the "massive problems," except by serving as a voice of backlash and reaction attacking progressive Afro-American students...