Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage," cautioned Sonny, referring to the couple's divorce last June and Cher's subsequent on-again-off-again marriage to Rock Singer Gregg Allman. Grumbled George Slaughter, Cher's current producer: "I'm producing a variety show, but I'm living a soap opera...
...more and more from the eloquent blues guitar that was the mainspring of her early success, Raitt draws most of her musical energy in her sweet husky voice. Songs like Sugar Mama, Good Enough and I'm Blowin' Away are good. However, she squanders her ability on soap opera ballads like My First Night Alone Without...
...flapper drawings, Gluyas Williams's genius-inspired portrayals of crises in American Industry--based, all of them, alas, on now obsolete advertising campaigns. (I still believe that the sight of the rotund executive being forcibly restrained from plunging after the bar of Ivory in "The Day a Cake of Soap Sank at Proctor and Gamble" is one of the funniest sights ever, but I must agree that a case can be made for obscurity there). And the late 1930s parody, "Life goes to the fall of Western Civilization," is gone too. You had to know the old Life style...
...Woman's View reads like a screenplay for a mid-afternoon soap opera, or like the National Lampoon's parody of Judy Agnew's dear diary...
...half the shows on radio and TV nowadays sound suspiciously like Bob & Ray spoofs. In their 29 years as a comedy team - mostly on radio, with excursions into TV and Broadway - Bob Elliott, 52, and Ray Goulding, 53, have rarely misjudged that ironic remove. As a result, newscasts, soap operas, man-in-the-street interviews, sports features and public service announcements, among other detritus of the air waves, can never seem quite the same...