Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soap Opera...
...first of all, the Harvard sports teams are not underwritten by any soap company...
...this bastion of high-class learning, living and tax evasion simply uses the color--not the color and the laundry soap--to identify itself on the playing field...
...money to start himself in business, then (after eluding an attempt to deport him) vows to get an education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor who works on Ellis Island, while her sightless sister forges a career, improbably, as a writer of silent...
...plot summary can do the movie or the book justice--but suffice it to say it makes following soap operas seem like child's play. Charly (Diane Keaton) is an American actress in England with romantic yearnings for a cause. When she goes to hear a speech by a bemasked and decidedly debonair PLO member, Charly falls hard for him and only slightly less hard for his message. A part in a wine commercial brings her to the island of Mykonos where--surprise, surprise--she meets up with the handsome terrorist...