Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dressed in battered Panama hat, short-sleeved shirt, Bermuda shorts and ancient tennis shoes, he seems most in his element while pottering around the seashore inspecting biological specimens. His evenings are generally spent at home with his wife watching soap operas and sumo wrestling on TV. In conversation, he rarely ventures anything more voluble than "Ah so desu ka [Is that so]?" Such are the salient features of the still, shy life of Emperor Hirohito, born as the 124th Imperial Son of Heaven in an unbroken line stretching back 2,643 years. Schooled since birth in the remoteness and reticence...
...admitted to a hospital know enough to bring their own chopsticks, towels and soap and not to expect amenities. Example: a woman recently checked into a large, state-run hospital in Tokyo to have a thyroid tumor removed. She was able to get a semiprivate room. The sheets were changed only once a week and the bath and toilet were down the hall. Her sharpest recollection: "I hated to go to the bathroom. Scores of cockroaches were clustered there at night." Still, she said, "the care was excellent...
...also caters to popular tastes, beaming out sumo wrestling tournaments, baseball games and Japanese-style soap operas. Currently, the most watched show on all television is NHK's Oshin, a lachrymose 15-minute daily drama that traces the vicissitudes of a farmer's ambitious daughter who becomes the owner of a chain of supermarkets...
Some of the individuals whom I met through work in New York and Los Angeles soap actors, centerfold models, "jiggly" actresses, makeup artists and hairdressers altered my thinking more positively. Although many of them conformed to unflattering stereotypes, up close a surprising number conveyed an intelligence and integrity which were otherwise undetectable. What made their virtues even more impressive was the lack of ostentation with which so many of them handled their careers, despite the intense public interest and scrutiny they aroused. Behind the lightweight images were often levelheaded hard workers who convinced me over the years just how unreliable...
...money trouble." Susan Stanberg, host of "All Things Considered," a popular network news program, said yesterday during a preview for the fundraiser, adding, "We can't sell deodorant or soap "NPR "needs a different kind of support for its different kinds of broadcasting." She added...