Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heart. Playwright Beth Henley spins out a web of relationships among three Mississippi sisters, and, though the actresses (Kathy Bates, Susan Kingsley and Lee Anne Fahey) are uniformly fine and the play a potential crowd pleaser, the tenor of the evening is mostly that of an afternoon TV soap...
...head. Careerism lures her to New York. After six months, Paul rejoins her, keenly desiring a child. Susan refuses to be his "baby machine" and has an abortion without telling Paul. Recriminations. Divorce. New lovers, and a bittersweet embrace at the fadeout. To confuse this with soap opera is to possess 20/20 vision...
...career slowed and his resistance to quantum mechanics earned him the scorn of some scientists, he still epitomized science in the public eye. As Carl Sagan notes, his example inspired numerous Depression-era youngsters to choose scientific careers. His persona and pronouncements became legends. Asked why he used one soap for washing as well as shaving, he replied, "Two soaps? That is too complicated." Even when receiving visitors like David Ben-Gurion (who later offered him the presidency of Israel), Einstein often would be tieless and sockless. Recalls Physicist-Biographer Banesh Hoffmann, who worked with Einstein: "He never tried...
...Next Generations is not art or, for that matter, definitive history, but it is a show-biz tour de force. An exceedingly clever and affecting soap opera, Roots II manages to play on the most basic sentimental feelings about democratic ideals and familial love. When, in the final hours, the tale turns to Alex Haley's career, it also becomes an irresistible American success story. Taken as a whole, Roots 11 is a compendium of pop cul ture: it mixes elements of Gone With the Wind, Uncle Tom 's Cabin, March of Time newsreels, Horatio Alger sto ries...
...Nazi past Both ARD and ZDF, the two national networks, declined to purchase the show They cited reports from West German correspondents in the U.S. that Holocaust which focuses on the suffering of a Jewish family and the rise of a young SS officer, verged "dangerously close to soap opera." Eventually WDR, largest of West Germany's regional channels, bought the show for $500,000, then arranged for other stations to join in a simultaneous broadcast that covered the country. Explained Program Director Günter Rohrbach: "A production on this subject cannot be ignored in West Germany...