Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death with dignity is now being too readily promoted and death itself too easily accepted. To suggest, as many proponents of euthanasia are doing, that death is an occurrence as natural as birth smacks of "whistling before the darkness descends" and denotes a "very feeble philosophy." It is "soap-opera stuff' to say that "death can be beautiful." Indeed, says Ramsey, death is "the ultimate indignity...
...wash out his mouth with soap...
Many buffs, says R.C.A. President Bernie Feitelberg, also "love the old commercials. Even in those days you had your laxatives, your cars, your gasolines, your soap powders." Indeed, members of Manhattan's Radio Library Society start each meeting by linking arms and singing one of the most famous commercials-the one that accompanied Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy: "Won't you buy Wheaties, the best breakfast food in the land! Won't you try Wheaties ..." The melody lingers on, but Jack-and Little Orphan Annie and Buck Rogers-are only memories. Recordings of their series have...
...RAGMAN'S DAUGHTER is one of those English proletarian soap operas, done up this time with a patina of gloss. The script was written by Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) in what could only have been a fit of self-loathing. An unhappy employee in a cheese factory, approaching middle age and dwelling on the glum fringes of the lower middle class, recalls a teen-age romance with the ragman's daughter. She was a lustrous girl who came riding down his street on a horse, smiling in soft focus. With glistening white teeth and flowing...
...crying out, in favor of euthanasia. She recalls, in lurid detail, visits to old-age homes and intensive care units; she interviews doctors, nurses, families and the dying themselves; she dutifully records the legal history of mercy killing. Her sketches, unfortunately, lose their authenticity in the pervasive stench of soap opera. Although informative and well-documented, the book ultimately creates little impression, brings no enlightenment...