Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this drama the elected Senators did not represent America. Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill did. The soap opera that brought them together was as sleazy, corrupt and stupid as much of the nation's life has become. But the business touched deep matters. It was about man and woman, about sex and power, about ambition and desire. The hearings, almost a new art form, commingled private tragedy, public farce, office mini-series, and ideological bonfire...
...brought up paper clips, contact lens solution, paper [and] soap for years to come," she says...
...bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon and I went to see the soldiers drill in the after noon it was a plesant day." For Dec. 12, of the same year: "We cleaned some of the ((hog)) guts for soap grease it sprinkled rain...
Admittedly, Plath's story lends itself to soap opera. In the first half of her short 30 years, Plath endured the rending death of her father; a trusting but also accusatory relationship with her mother; and numerous, and at times traumatic, experiences with love and sex. Her desire not just to write but also to publish, expressed at a young age, is startling in its intensity...
...This is a catch up day for all the weeks that we've been here," she said. "Before this, I watched soap operas, and I tried to go to the library, but I always fall asleep there...