Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spin-off series Deep Space Nine debuts. Alien soap opera...
Nevertheless, the museum, while graceful, elegant and pedagogical, is a freak show -- a kind of Nightmare on Elm Street as scripted by Edgar Allan Poe. There is the Soap Lady, who, underground and buried, decomposed into a waxy gray substance called adipocere; she was purchased by the museum for $7.50 when Philadelphia's old cemetery was moved in 1875. Then there is the pair of twins who share a single skull; the Frenchwoman who grew horny protrusions all over her body, including her forehead (top left); a heart made translucent by chemicals; the constipation-racked colon of the Balloon...
...thing about Allen -- his macho-guy persona gets old real fast. All that talk about power drills and Lava soap and walking around the house "looking for things to rewire." Just how universal is this? If anything in my house needs rewiring, I'm on the phone to Rescue...
Transvestitism is nothing new in Tinseltown. Dustin Hoffman won raves for his performance as a soap opera leading lady in "Tootsie." Marilyn Monroe wasn't the only one in a dress in "Some Like It Hot." Eric Idle of Monty Python fame brought drag to a new level by putting on a habit in "Nuns on the Run." During "Belle Epoque," the 1993 Academy Award winner for best foreign film, we got a chance to see what the hero looked like in a frock (rather fetching, as it turned out, but really not his color). And there are many, many...
...since July, are keeping these arrests off the front page, says TIME Buenos Aires reporter Carl Honore. The investigating judge has switched his sights from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to Iranian embassy officials to Lebanon over the summer, under pressure to produce results. "This has become almost a farcical soap opera, going in so many directions that everybody's confused," says Honore.BTW...