Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the best way to win Sandra's love is to prove how amazingly clean you are now that Dunster has hot water. Whenever you have a chance and Sandra is within ear shot, be sure to mention showers, soap, shampoo, deoderant, Tide...whatever. Make sure you're always well groomed and smell like a Spring breeze. You could also get your friends to spread rumors about how obsessively clean you are, and how upset you had been when you couldn't bathe...
...exception is Dagmar Demming's Supplies for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (1994). Demming installs a series of ordinary soap dishes throughout the exhibition space, each holding a bar of fossilized soap. According to the program, "They symbolize the constant need to cleanse away guilt," At the same time, they inevitably suggest the bars of soap handed to the prisoners of Auschwitz as they were herded into the gas chamber "showers." It is unnecessary to analyze Demming's installment in order to feel its effect...
...their respective endowments and to pose prettily in profile. Needless to say, La Mole and Margot, like all good French lovers since Abelard and Heloise, are doomed and terrifically tragic. There are also poisonings, escape attempts, decapitations, incestuous rapes and boar hunts, all of which make "Queen Margot" a soap opera of historic order...
...private sector, however, Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers will have to contend with the same market pressures that induce the networks to offer sleazy talk shows and sappy soap operas that comprise the current day-time fare...
...number of thought-provoking issues. Should Ms. Chung be redeployed from CBS to the CIA, in some department of interrogation and espionage? Should Bill let this incident mar his emerging romance with Newt? Should Mr. Gingrich be Speaker of anything, or should his mouth first be washed out with soap...