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Word: soaping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARTHA HOWARD WISHES THAT HER son Ken had been in a car accident. While supportive of the actor's decision to leave "Dynasty" for the American Repertory Theater (ART), she had hoped his character could have left the prime-time soap in worse physical shape...

Author: By Emily J.M. Knowlton, | Title: Ken Howard: Leaving Hollywood for Harvard | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

Despite what the flyer called "certain unintentional similarities between From Here to Eternity and Days of our Lives, Dallas, Dynasty and Love Story," the first episode of the Leverett House Soap Opera, directed by Adam Schwartz and Cliff Goodstein, was in fact amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes, and a secret desk drawer filled with soap filched from hotel rooms around the world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming The Untouchables. He works nine-hour stretches almost daily, in part because he is perpetually plagued by the question " 'Will I write again tomorrow?' Whoever says I write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ennio Morricone: The Lyrical Assassin at 5 a.m. | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...other. And don't forget con-junctions. The intertextual Grammer Rock must now instruct children in the mysterious 'either/or and simultaneously neither/nor.' Never fear that traditional values need fall by the wayside: discipline is still important, as every mother who has ever washed out her child's mouth with soap for saying "dualism" or "positivism" in the house can tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Squabbles between two presidential advisers are common, but they rarely reach melodramatic heights. In recent months, however, a battle between Ronald Reagan's two closest counselors has been airing regularly, like a soap-opera accompaniment to news of the Iran-contra scandal. As the sniping between First Lady Nancy Reagan and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan escalated, it only added to the image of a presidency adrift. "What is happening at the White House?" asked New Mexico Democrat William Richardson on the House floor last week. "Who is in charge? A constituent of mine asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Say Goodbye, Don Regan | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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