Word: soaping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent three days early in the week with Joel from Survivor, an executive from the CBS soap-opera division and Eddie and JoBo, Chicago's Bumpin' B96 morning team, whittling the contestants down to 10 semifinalists...
...waited - and I waited. I don't know for how long, but it must have been at least a year or two. The boring school hours came and went, the casual brutality continued, and my unhappy childhood days played themselves out like the least imaginative, longest-running soap opera on television...
Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...
...Winners ARIEL SHARON Looks like a sure thing. Israeli Likud leader builds up a 20% lead in race to be P.M. JOHN ASHCROFT Top cop. With slim win in U.S. Senate, Mr. Controversy becomes Attorney General SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS The next soap hunk? Mexican rebel leader does TV gig and sees his popularity soar...
...oranges and one of potatoes, three sacks of flour, some yeast, two jars of oil and two cartons of milk. Next to a dirty stack of plastic pans lies the mealy meal and rice that will provide their main sustenance for the month. A couple of bars of soap and two rolls of toilet paper also have to last the month. Tsepho has just brought these rations home from the social-service center where the "orphan grants" are doled...