Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the course of his reporting for this week's cover story on TV soap operas, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos joined two of the actors on NBC's Days of Our Lives, Susan Seaforth Hayes and her husband Bill, for lunch at a Hollywood restaurant. "A well-known movie star was seated across from us," Janos recalls. "Within 15 minutes of our arrival, the Hayes' were besieged by autograph seekers. I watched the movie actor's face. At first he was simply puzzled, then he was piqued. Finally he became incensed. No one had paid...
...soap operas on the networks are rated from four teardrops to none according to quality. The numeral in brackets is the show's Nielsen position in the last quarter...
...contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different-shaped handles located away from the water source so that the soap-blinded bather can adjust water temperatures by feel...
...kitchen and the family room," he predicts, "the '70s will be the era of the bathroom and body care." The Japanese, who have always had a highly civilized attitude toward hygiene, already have a design for the ultimate shower machine: the bather selects the desired water temperature and soap, pushes a button and is then soaked, washed with suds produced by ultrasonic waves, rinsed, massaged with rubber balls and finally dried with heat lamps. A big step toward civilized johnmanship is the "AD 2000 Comfort Control Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet...
Actors' Showcase. Age has not refined Sweet Bird's effulgent bathos. The reduction of personality to sex organs is the dynamic of skin flicks and soap op era. Sad to say, Williams wrote this Petit Guignol sideshow in the late '50s, soon after completing his masterpiece, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Today it seems fatally misconceived, a sentimental melodrama instead of a savage, black comedy on southern mores...