Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While soap bubbles and babies bawled, a crowd of about 100 people rallied at University Hall at noon Thursday to demand that Harvard provide the University community with child-care service...
...tremendously successful. The timing can have Marx Brothers accuracy (it can also be unbearably sluggish, something that the Harpo troupe might well improve during the summer Agassiz run). But the production is a 1title too cute, and some of the actors create dreadful characters that seem carved out of soap, so that finally the message of the play-a plea for leisure in a suicidal, capitalistic world-becomes lost in a context whose sophistication administers only a put-on frame of mind...
...dubious virtue of representing all these traits with faithful mindlessness. What else but a synthetic 5-year-old subculture can give rise to a movie which purports to deal with imediate social problems and turns into a patently false exercise in cinematic techniques borowed from sixty-second soap commercials...
...pitied, not blamed. He often finds it impossible to create individual selling pitches for the rising number of nearly identical products. "Some poor son of a bitch is sitting in his office at Compton right this minute," says the author, "trying to figure out what to say about Ivory Soap that hasn't been said may be 20,000 times before. If you're doing an ad for Tide, what do you say? What do you do about Axion...
...shifting intonations in the ear and heart of the reader. Describing the peculiar discrepancy between apparent message and feeling in Forster's novels, Lionel Trilling observed: " 'Wash ye, make yourselves clean,' says the plot, and the manner murmurs, 'If you can find the soap...