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Word: soaping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Voight replacing Tommy Lee Jones) makes a second trek from Texas to | Montana, this time to drive a herd of horses, while his unacknowledged son (Rick Schroder) goes to work for a powerful cattle baron. In place of the hardscrabble poetry of the original is a meandering frontier soap opera, which lopes at a pace that could put tumbleweed to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back From Boot Hill | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...inspections and exchange envoys with South Korea for more nuclear talks. If it does, Washington will resume formal talks and offer some carrots: the possibility of diplomatic ties, and even economic aid and investment -- tempting to a country where many people can afford only one meal a day and soap is a luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War of Nerves At the Nuclear Brink | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...father showering his adult children with money) and cheap pop references (Dances with Wolves, The Mary Tyler Moore Show). He probably knows his audience: at a preview, the crowd gave star-entrance applause to David Groh, erstwhile husband on the sitcom Rhoda and a veteran of the soap opera General Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If Baby Grows Up Gay? | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...DeWolfe residents searching for local programing are more likely to find "Laughing Matters," a comedy about a group of lesbians, or "Ivory Tower," a soap opera about Harvard...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Locals Access TV Station | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

...first there was home shopping, then video-on-demand, and then long- distance video games. Pretty soon we had video party lines, video bulletin boards, virtual house calls, electronic classifieds, real-time Yellow Pages, laser-print coupon clubs, interactive soap operas and all the rest. The only people who weren't plugged in were those pointy heads who never owned a TV set in the first place. I saw one of them the other day, walking outside, making a fuss over the flowers. Hey, I'm no lowbrow. I used to go to the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 21st Century Couch Potato | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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