Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jokes. Unemployment has become a compelling theme of soap operas, comic strips, rock songs. In ABC's One Life to Live and CBS's The Young and the Restless, characters talk as much about their job insecurities as their sexual insecurities. In the newspapers' Mary Worth, two characters are putting off marriage because they are out of work. (Comic-strip art imitates life; marriage rates are tumbling because of unemployment.) In a new song, Hard Times, Arlo Guthrie croons: "I ain't got a nickel to call mine ... We ain't even got a lousy...
...crossing the line to melodrama and heavy handedness, and in a presentation in which the other actors allow themselves from time to time to slip over the edge. Naylor creates an agonizingly credible and sympathetic character. The realism of his emotion is never marred by a tendency towards the soap operatic...
...five months after David was born, Jo took care of him. Then, Teddy charges, she began to put ground glass and soap in the child's formula, stepped on his fingers and fed him overdoses of medicine. "They asked me about all of those things, and I finally admitted to having done them," says Jo. "Somebody had to be the crazy one in a group like that. The role was chosen for me, and I accepted it. The family attracts emotionally sick people...
...trite treatise written by a woman, Ellen Geer, who also plays the lead. It is long past time now for movies made by and about women, but no one could have expected or wanted Memory of Us, which has less in common with heightened consciousness than with daytime soap opera. The movie is so thin and weepy that it inadvertently contradicts its intention and turns into what it was trying to avoid, a stereotypical example of what has been known so condescendingly, for so long, as a "woman's picture...
...interview in the Paris Review, Albee credits the title to a distinctly literary graffito inscribed in soap on the mirror of a Greenwich Village bar. He wrote to Leonard Woolf, the husband of the dead novelist, who gave him permission...