Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escapist drivel, meanwhile, is going after a younger crowd. TV's hottest new genre is the twentysomething ensemble show. Melrose Place (a spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210), The Heights (about a group of blue-collar New Jersey youths trying to launch a rock band) and 2000 Malibu Road, a soap opera set in a California beach house, all drew strong ratings this summer. Coming this fall are NBC's The Round Table (young professionals in Washington), Fox's Class of '96 (students at a small Northeastern college) and a slew of youth- oriented sitcoms...
...kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
...would be checked for radiation. Anyone who was radioactive would trigger a series of sensors, setting off a bell and a flashing light -- yellow or red, depending on the level of radioactivity. Those who had been most exposed were to be led to decontamination showers and washed with medicated soap. Their clothes would be incinerated, and they would be issued military coveralls. Electric carts converted to ambulances would shuttle back and forth to the facility's subterranean hospital...
WHAT: THE LATEST IN THE WORLD'S GREATEST SOAP OPERA...
...down, and her mother-in-law's commands are the only ones she follows unfailingly. The late Earl Mountbatten, one of Charles' many mentors, once said nothing guarantees the monarchy's survival; it is only as strong as any given King. So the drama plays like any good soap opera: you simply have to stay tuned...