Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUMMER OF 1973, for most Americans, will be remembered as the first of the "Watergate Summers." Under television lights in the venerable Caucus Room, the Senate Watergate Committee became an afternoon fixture almost as important as the soap operas it replaced on home television screens. Phrases like "At this point in time," and "What did he know and when did he know it?" as well as appointment logs and White House organization charts became the lifeblood of political conversations. The really knowledgeable viewers knew not only the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names...
Back in her scuffling days she did TV ads for soap, mouthwash and men's underwear. That was before Actress Andrea Marcovicci went legit, of course, first with a 2%-year run as lovable Dr. Betsy Chernak in the TV soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and most recently as Woody Allen's morally upright friend in The Front. For all that, Marcovicci has been singing the blues lately-as a chanteuse at Reno Sweeney in Manhattan. "If I stick to singing, I won't go stir crazy waiting for another movie part," she says...
Homemade remedies usually do not work, and can worsen the infection, Norins said. Lice eggs, cemented to public hair shafts, do not wash off with ordinary soap and water, he added...
...Soap is The Proposition's word on TV soap operas and is playing at The Proposition Theater, 241 Hampshire St., Cambridge Thursday at 8:30 p.m. and Friday...
There's something intriguing about Soap. What the show essentially does, however, is to skirt around the edge of some rather vexing philosophical questions; the only definite answers it gives--that soap opera is a fix, and that we all need it, the audience as well as the people who act in it--aren't particularly original or hard to come by. After watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman for three months, I could have told you as much myself...