Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Semtex, which East bloc countries export in large quantities to Lebanon. Dark orange in color and claylike in consistency, Semtex can be detected by trained dogs but apparently not by existing airport equipment. Authorities believed that the bomb, which may have been no larger than two bars of soap, could have had a plastic timer that would not have set off the metal-detecting machines at the Cairo airport...
...Mather has the only weekly house newspaper, and it's called "The Concrete Abstract." Mather also has the only house soap opera, "Mathering Heights," which has an episode four times a year...
...briskly waving their arms and legs. Later, as the action speeds up, they swing rolled- up sheets that churn around Penny Hutchinson, who plays a sort of heroine- housewife. Set to music and words by Herschel Garfein, the fantasy moves from borderline silly to giddily lyrical. Morris laughs at soap-company ad pitches but not at the washday ritual. For the indomitable housewife he has open affection...
...Soap-Powders is a brimming piece of choreography, filled with wit and invention and a certain brash confidence. At 29, Morris is the hottest young choreographer in the country. His Seattle-based troupe of 13 dancers is in heavy demand, and other signs of success are visible: bookings in Europe, commissions from established ballet companies (Boston, the Joffrey), a program on next season's PBS Dance in America series, invitations to pump some life into grand opera productions. (Morris choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils on alternating sopranos in the current Seattle Opera production of Strauss's Salome...
...Charles and James Burrows, the team responsible for Cheers. Last week's initial segment, though jam-packed with jokes and characters, sweated less than most sitcom pilots. Bess Armstrong stars as Paula, a career woman who gets married and stumbles into a job as producer of a TV soap opera on the same day. The series will apparently shuttle between conflicts at home (her husband Matt has a punkish daughter who resents her) and at work, where the gallery of nuts ranges from a brash receptionist to an effusive, Southern-fried head writer, played attractively by Carol Kane...