Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's studies department has similar peculiarities which only show how important it is to bridge the interdisciplinary gap. For example: "Guiding Light," the soap opera, was one of the common popular culture examples used to illustrate theoretical arguments in my gender-studies class. Not ever having watched the soap opera, I was a bit lost during these classes, and I wondered if it would be incorrect to critique this "soap opera discourse" as culturally and gender specific, and as a poor model to illustrate points in class...
...Virginia Slims brand ("It's a woman thing"). The company intends to launch new female performers by underwriting their albums and sponsoring live performances. Its first release, due this spring, is a six-song mini-album by 27-year-old Martha Byrne (who plays Lily on the TV soap As the World Turns). But here's the catch: the album will be available only in a package along with two packs of Virginia Slims (cost: around...
...first for an Ecuadoran head of state, is seen as essential to establishing a lasting peace. Fujimori's return to public life is intended to show his government easily handling the hostage situation. So far, the Peruvian media seems to agree with him. Television stations no longer interrupt afternoon soap operas for live broadcasts of garbage pickups and food deliveries at the residence. But the President's public return has so far changed nothing at the home of Japan's ambassador to Peru, where rebels still hold 74 hostages...
...Marvin (Hume Cronyn), who sucks the ink off Yahtzee dice, hasn't uttered a coherent word in years. His sister Ruth (Gwen Verdon) is so devoted to soap operas that she dons a formal gown when her favorite characters wed. His daughter Lee (Meryl Streep), who smokes all the time, has no talent for raising kids. Just look at her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), with his pathological fear of apologizing to people he's hurt. Fortunately, Lee's sister Bessie (Diane Keaton) is around. She has taken care of her dad for 20 years. But no good deed goes unpunished...
...small boy in the nursery, dressed in a hussar's uniform and riding furiously on a rocking horse with drawn sword, is plainly Beckmann himself; a Puss-in-Boots hangs upside down from the ceiling; a languid carrot-haired odalisque on the sofa in the foreground blows iridescent soap bubbles of reverie and future desire; and a schoolmasterly figure holds up his hand in a gesture of censoriousness. On the right is a schoolroom scene with a teacher conducting a lesson in geography that doesn't impress young Beckmann, who holds out a drawing he has surreptitiously made...