Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz held a five-hour press conference to explain the soap-opera saga that has sent her skyrocketing political career into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
...drive, sponsored by council members Elizabeth A. Haynes '98 and Chandler F. Arnold '98, encourages students to donate clothes, toys, soap, paper products and money, which will in turn be given to local charities...
...peers. "There is a fine line between really being able to convey something fresh and new and likable, and going over the top," observes Lisa Altman, vice president of Philips Classics, Josefowicz's label. "I don't think we've done that with Leila. She's got that Ivory Soap-Seventeen magazine type of appeal. We didn't want to take a short-term approach because I expect she is going to have a long, prolific career...
ROGER HOWARTH certainly isn't the first soap star to leave a show to pursue a film career (ever hear of Laurence Fishburne or Demi Moore?) or because the plots were too dopey. But he may be one of the few who left for moral reasons. "I was hired to play Todd, the serial rapist and murderer," says the Emmy-winning Howarth of his role on One Life to Live, "and then I became Todd the erotically charged heir to $27.5 million." When the rapist maniac became a long lost son and his criminal tendency was transformed into something sexually...
...network once known as the Tiffany of broadcasting. But nostalgia for the golden era of CBS has lately been supplemented by a sense that the network has been irreparably tarnished. Of all the bad days that Black Rock has endured (and is there another company whose internal soap operas are more frequently played out for the public?), these are undoubtedly the worst. In prime time, CBS's ratings have suffered an almost total collapse: its Nielsen average so far this fall is 9.5--a nearly 20% drop-off from one year ago, pushing the network ever deeper into third place...