Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, the cause fared better. Officials waived the rules and 11-year-old Susan Farbin entered the Soap Box Derby traditionally open only to boys aged 11 to 15. She obtained the sponsorship of the National Organization for Women and emblazoned her bright pink racer with a Women's Lib emblem of sexual equality. In the derby finals, Susan may have unsettled some of the boys' dawning prejudices about women drivers by going faster than a greased (male chauvinist) pig and taking three trophies-for best racer construction, first in her age class and second...
Chinese hotels are not air conditioned, despite sweltering summers, and the Americans found that room service was undependable. The crude domestic soap and toilet paper was best avoided. Room telephones in the Tung Fang, Roderick discovered, could be made to work once the dialing code was divined (dial 666 for the front desk)-but he had to go downstairs to learn the instructions...
...avoid. He is no longer a compulsive moviegoer, but he leaves the television on-without sound-all evening long. "I'm afraid the world will end when I'm not looking," he says. During lunch he watches .Days of Our Lives. "I love the recurring themes in soap-opera serials. The women get pregnant and the men get amnesia. The perfect fictional character would have progressive amnesia. I might do a novel about that...
...plot-line that all the characters are connected in one way or another. The construction of the plot, in fact, invites comparison with The Edge of Night or Secret Storm, but the subjects treated in the series have more range than the endless marriage/adultery/abortion/divorce variations of the more conventional soap operas...
...raised their after-tax profits by a total of 19% last year, the second largest gain among 41 industries in the Citibank survey (the leader: amusement companies). The rise stemmed largely from successful diversification that has taken the cigarette makers into products and services as varied as pet food, soap, whisky, watches and shipping. The profit gains also reflected the reversal last year of a three-year drop in per capita cigarette consumption. Average consumption worked out to 4,039 cigarettes a year for each American over 18, or slightly more than half a pack a day, up from...