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Word: soaping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western diatribe. What's more, the bombing has become less terrifying to Serbs. The sirens still sound at 8 o'clock each night in Belgrade, but the wail is now muted. The residents of the embattled city have given the sirens an affectionate nickname, "Esmeralda," after the popular Mexican soap opera that used to appear on Serbian television at 8 p.m. Increasingly the war seems like just something to watch on the tube, a long-running melodrama with only occasional plot twists. "In the beginning we used to run to air-raid shelters every night, but we don't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbia: Mind Game | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...networks will announce their fall schedules in three weeks. Lynch's Mulholland Drive is almost sure to get the go-ahead. Imagine's other contenders are Student Affairs, a one-hour tongue-in-cheek soap opera about students at a college in the Midwest that UPN is considering; Thirty, a half-hour comedy-drama hybrid for ABC that shakes up the now familiar Friends formula; Eli's Theory, a half-hour drama for WB about a single father raising his six-year-old genius son; and Agro & York, for Fox, a puppet show set in space. On the drama front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Firing Up The Imagination | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to feature a dwarf as a regular character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to feature a character with AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...first soap opera to expand from an hour to an hour and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's All, Folks | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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