Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appears in the late twentieth century to recount intimate memories of his prolific love life. But as the picture-perfect sunsets flash across the screen, the lovely ladies disrobe, the orchestra hums and the saccharine sentiments fly, it becomes apparent that his Don Juan is just another primetime soap opera rogue...
...relations pioneer; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bernays, the Thomas Edison of American p.r., actually promoted Thomas Edison in the course of a long career that began in earnest when Bernays set up shop in 1919. Now regarded as the virtual inventor of modern public relations, he promoted Enrico Caruso, Ivory soap, Henry Ford, World War I, hairnets, various projects for every President from Coolidge to Eisenhower, the color green (at the request of Lucky Strike cigarettes, concerned that women were resisting the green packaging because it clashed with their clothes) and Time Inc. Along the way, Bernays developed many now commonplace...
Best of all, the pop soap opera that has been John's public life looks to have a happy third act. At 47, the star has emerged from his rehabs fit and creatively recharged. "For a decade or more," says Taupin, "people have tended to view Elton John only as a commercial figure. You wouldn't even know he made records. He was just this character from the tabloids. But now he's totally alive. His rehab was more than fixing what was broken. It was an exorcism. He's become stronger, and he wants to prove himself again...
...that the drama is necessary to keep the show moving. Noah T. Zinkin, '96, says "I like the high-intensity of E.R. They show interesting medical cases." Pratima Gupta, '96, who watches with Zinkin, agrees that the reason that the show is so successful is that, unlike the soap-opera-esque Chicago Hope, "E.R. focuses mre on patients than on the private lives of doctors. It's interesting because they try to cover the social issues through the patients; like child abuse and AIDS...
Although interactive programming is the committee's goal, pioneer broadcasts will consist of non-interactive programs such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Television Organization's soap opera "Ivory Tower" and Harvard course lectures...