Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This schedule of witnesses is daunting and certain to include hours of tedious testimony about secret bank accounts and weapons shipments. As one White House aide predicts, viewers (and the networks) are sure to switch back to the soap operas except when some of the major witnesses are on camera. "Our responsibility is not to entertain, but to inform," says Cohen, whose eloquence in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment debate helped propel him into the Senate...
Most Americans older than 13 already know more about Richard Milhous Nixon than they may realize or, in many cases, appreciate. To a remarkable extent, his life has been led in public, his up-and-down and then up-again-and-down- again career a long-running soap opera that played on all the networks. The ubiquitous male lead was regularly humiliated (Who can forget the Checkers episode in 1952 or the "last press conference" in 1962?), but he always bounced back, a new Nixon, ready for another crisis that would again display his anguish before a dumbfounded public...
...long been the butt of barroom jokes, a straying sheep of American novels (The Scarlet Letter, Elmer Gantry) and even of TV movies. Much like fictional characters, the gospel telecasters in the current imbroglio emerged during the week as role players in their own real-life soap opera. Among the participants and events...
...spring henbit touched the pastures of Missouri with a delicate lavender, and the "Kewpie" cheerleaders were deep into Ivory soap when Ronald Reagan arrived in Columbia last week in search of himself. He's playing America again after months as a captive inside the Washington Beltway, where always is heard a discouraging word and the skies are cloudy most days...
Some producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...