Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard core addicts met at Aggassiz House yesterday to discuss their habit with Kenneth J. Witty, the producer of public television's MacNeil-Lehrer Report, and June V. Cross '75, a reporter for the program. All admitted embarrassment at being unable and unwilling to break their habit--watching soap operas...
...MacNeil-Lehrer Report is producing a program about college courses on the art of soap opera production and appreciation, Witty said yesterday. Theater, sociology and communications departments at more than 20 colleges in the United States offer such courses, he added...
...hose sucks up and implants the charge, millions of ammonium nitrate pebbles soaked with fuel oil from a black cauldron near by. "We call 'em 'prills,' " Burns says, emptying another sack of the explosive powder into the cauldron. The prills look like a pile of granulated soap particles and feel rather like raw tapioca...
...lavish, so long (2 hr. 20 min.) and so overstuffed with talent that one at first expects an epic of Homeric proportions. As it gradually turns out, Director John Schlesinger has a trifle up his sleeve, not a bombshell: Yanks is nothing more and nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts and put their brains on hold. Admirers of Schlesinger's weightier efforts-Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday-should...
Love for Lydia (Sept. 23, PBS). Fluff up the cushions and settle back into the easy chair. It is time for another British soap opera from Masterpiece Theater. Appropriately, this sad tale of the dangers of love, taken from a novel by the late H.E. Bates, begins its run on the first day of autumn and continues through the sea son, ending Dec. 9. Lydia Aspen (Mel Martin) is a beautiful young heiress who comes to Aspen House on the death of her father in 1929. Three middle-class youths from the town, a factory center in the Midlands, fall...