Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funerals, for the Watermelon Festival, for long talks with Uncle Buddy. Clinton calls his grandfather and his uncle "the main male influences in my childhood." He kept up with all the interconnected family gossip and vicissitudes that make life in a small Arkansas town seem like an open-air soap opera. A thousand times over, Clinton heard and told the tale of how Uncle Buddy decided one day to "stop making a damn fool of myself" by heavy drinking -- and did it. Little moral sagas, losses taken with resignation, unexpected gains, made up the texture of Hope life. The marks...
...BOTTOM LINE: Bergman's back and Bille's got him, for a handsome soap opera with a radiant star performance...
Adlai Stevenson was appalled. "This isn't Ivory soap vs. Palmolive," he said. "I think the American people will be shocked by such contempt for their intelligence." With four years to rethink, Stevenson got the message. In a technique repeated subsequently whenever the "outs" face an incumbent, Stevenson in 1956 recounted Ike's unfulfilled 1952 promises. "How's that again, General?" Stevenson intoned endlessly, adding, "Yes, it's time for a change...
...organizing excursions to restaurants and shops. They help one another set daily goals: cook breakfast, buy Mom a birthday card, look for a job. They also learn to do mundane chores: washing clothes in the hospital laundry room and cooking in a tiny employee kitchen. Nothing is easy. Soap goes into the washing machines, but clothes are often forgotten. Because schizophrenics have certain cognitive problems, they have trouble generalizing the principles behind the chores. Thus learning to fry chicken doesn't mean they will know how to cook a hamburger. Technical skills can be mastered only by constant repetition...
...sadder disappointment. The ABC comedy comes from David Lynch and Mark Frost, who shook up network TV with their brilliantly perverse soap opera Twin Peaks. This time the pair have come up with a sitcom about a ragtag TV network in the 1950s. Must have sounded great in the story conferences...