Word: soaping
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...want a Harvard soap opera? You can finally change the channel from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. Not even the Afro-American Studies department and University President Lawrence H. Summers can match the melodrama and tabloid feel of the show that opened Friday: two gorgeous and semi-famous College seniors accused of running a scam to rip off their friends and colleagues in the old and prestigious Hasty Pudding Theatricals, forsooth...
...scene featuring the two Winthrop House seniors indicted for larceny was truly theatre of the absurd, familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap-opera proportions that one half expected close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode...
...people that are more interested in life on soap operas than they are in their own surroundings,” Keret said. “These people care more about TV than they do about the homeless...
...people that are more interested in life on soap operas than they are in their own surroundings,” Keret said. “These people care more about TV than they do about the homeless...
...burning their pharmacological bridges. Feed-lot operators are dosing their livestock with antibiotics to keep them healthy under stressful growing conditions. Parents are demanding the most powerful broad-spectrum agents--often by brand name--for their children's upper-respiratory infections. Consumers are snapping up cutting boards, dishwashing soap and baby toys laced with antibacterial compounds, hoping to make their homes perfectly sterile and safe...