Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agnes Nixon launches her first new soap in 13 years...
...Live, Search for Tomorrow, All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns and The Guiding Light, each of which she either created or once served as head writer. And now there is the freshly minted college town of Corinth, the setting for Loving, ABC's first new soap opera in eight years and Nixon's first new soap in 13. Loving, which airs daily at 11:30 a.m. E.D.T., is only five weeks old and thus far ranks among the least buoyant of the soaps: No. 11 of 13 last week. But a new entry needs time...
...life were a soap opera, then Nixon would undoubtedly be the inspiring heroine who weathers the storm and stress with a patient smile and unwearying resilience. The daughter of a burial-garments manufacturer in Nashville, Aggie Eckardt yearned to write drama. After she graduated from Northwestern University's School of Speech in 1946, her skeptical father got her an audience with the querulous queen of soap opera, the prolific Irna Phillips, creator of The Guiding Light and Another World. Agnes was hired on the spot to be a soap writer in Chicago...
...lone child of divorced parents, Agnes craved a big family. Soon, she recalls, "I was doing a 15-minute show at home and having babies and rearing them [four in all]. It was a cottage industry. I was just this strange mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia who wrote soap operas. And then it grew like Topsy and I sort of grew with it." As she grew, she also forced soap opera to grow...
...alliance hopes to administer the parts of northern and eastern Lebanon that are now under the control of the Syrian army. Gemayel responded to the new challenge by calling the opposition front a "soap bubble" and accusing the Druze chieftain of selling out to the Syrians. Franjieh, on the other hand, hinted that the front would be willing to negotiate with the government. "If the regime resorts to democracy in dealing with us, we shall do the same," he declared. "But if it resorts to nondemocratic methods, then the future is in God's hands...