Word: soaping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mary Hartman is currently suffering through separation from her husband, exposure to venereal disease and the lack of tranquilizers around the house. But how is she, really? For all her troubles, very well, it seems. Norman Lear's soap-opera sendup, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, is now in its seventh week, the most talked-about new show of TV's numb-drum season. Most followers of loopy Mary and the other soap-flake characters of Fernwood must indulge their new addiction either in the afternoon or late at night. Shunned by the networks, the syndicated five...
Slapstick Tragedy. The most obvious thing about the show is its broad exaggeration of soap-opera calamity. Mary is held hostage by a crazed gunman, then propositioned by the rescuing police officer. Her friend, Loretta, who dreams of a career as a country singing star, is battling paralysis after her car was struck by another car full of nuns...
...reinforced by our pioneering social science surveys of the early 20th century and it was further elaborated in the 1930s by a series of innovative photographers and cinematographers. William Stott of the University of Texas at Austin has recently argued that documentary journalism, broadcasting and film-along with soap operas, newsreel houses, "inside" books, photo and news magazines-appeal to an imagination that "seeks the texture of reality" by fixing upon particulars...
...neglected a big segment of the daytime soap-opera audience: those lonely people, both young and old, who find in the characters the family, friends, continuity and roots they are denied by contemporary society...
...flap in the household of New York's senior Senator Jacob Javits was rapidly becoming something of a political soap opera. When the story of his wife Marion's $67,500-a-year job representing Iran's national airline for a Manhattan public relations firm first broke two weeks ago, Husband Jack, 71, gamely allowed that his wife, 51, made "independent judgments" about her professional life; he brushed aside charges that her job compromised his integrity as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a staunch supporter of Israel. But last week at a closed...