Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other national tours that would come to our campus for free. Ever here of the Nintendo Campus Challenge? Or the CBS Campus Tour? These are promotional entourages that tour the nation. The Nintendo tour is over, but the CBS tour, which sets up a carnival on campus and tapes soap opera and "Family Feud" parodies as well as giving away prizes, is still going on. They visited several Boston-area colleges this fall before heading south, but not Harvard...
Suddenly, King was out of luck, out of money and out of work. His marriage to Alene, which had produced a daughter -- King's only natural child, although he has one adopted son -- ended in divorce. (It had ended that way once before, but after several soap-opera twists, the couple had remarried in 1967.) King lost his TV and radio shows, his job with the Dolphins and his newspaper column. To make ends meet he did some free-lance radio work and later moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was a p.r. man for the local racetrack...
Wright managed to enrapture a particular type of rich man -- Great Lakes ! mercantile magnates. Darwin Martin, a mail-order-soap chief executive from Buffalo, commissioned houses and offices and lent him tens of thousands of dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for "Hib" Johnson of Johnson's Wax he designed an enormous house as well as a corporate headquarters. Richard Lloyd Jones, the architect's newspaper-publisher cousin, called him a "strutting, self- seeking, self-centered charmer" -- but he loved the house Wright built him, even though it (typically) went 50% over...
...group hopes to start broadcasting onCambridge cable within the next few months. Itwill start with news and informationalprogramming, but could expand to include game showor even a Harvard soap opera, according toPhillips...
...spirit to match; we'll happily watch her for the next 40 years. Matt Dillon is perfecting a comic shagginess. Funny Jeremy Piven steals a scene at a check-out counter. The other actors in SINGLES are stuck with playing cliches -- twentynothings. They mate, they muse, they inhabit soap-opera plots. Meet urban planner Campbell Scott ("a realist slash dreamer"), Greenpeacenik Kyra Sedgwick ("This whole decade is going to have to be about cleaning up"), maitre d' Jim True ("I live my life like a French movie"). Writer-director Cameron Crowe's movie lives like too many others. Singles...