Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century's other departures from the world as the eye sees it. Williams, whose wife has stayed behind, almost seduces one of Breasley's "gels." The story until then has the sure, mellow complexity of Mozart?at the end it degenerates into the kind of opera that advertises soap flakes...
Grief is the wood-note wild of the Irish soul. Rarely has a people's sorrow been sounded with such resonant purity as it is in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Despite moments of bathos and some soap operatics in the construction of the plot, this play is one of the granitic masterworks of modern dramatic...
...might have been expected. For a community as politically pretentious and cleverly cynical as this one, this musical comedy is positively self-indulgent. And in an era when police graft and political embezzlement are no more surprising than that Senate investigation hearings should compete successfully with afternoon soap operas, this tale of Tammany Hall and the maverick politician who, as much as any man could, managed to overcome the forces of evil is a natural...
...characters in The Abdication talk with a sort of slangy, contemporary coziness ("I've played these power games myself," Christina announces at one point), a style that Harvey first practiced in The Lion in Winter, the original soap opera about crowned heads...
...President Ford was there to discuss an intensely controversial and emotional subject-his pardoning of Richard Nixon for any offenses he had committed while in the White House. But despite the setting and expectations, last week's event was something of a disappointment-nearly as inconclusive as the soap operas it displaced in two hours of network time...