Word: soaping
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...does not always protect fools and drunks. He almost never protects the beautiful. But Elizabeth Taylor survived. Taylor turned her life into America's longest-running one-woman soap opera. At this point, her tacky misadventures seem to have been going on since the beginning of time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush...
Like a long-running soap opera, the characters in Northern Ireland's peace process rotate roles from episode to episode. Two months ago the IRA were the implacable hard men whose refusal to hand over weapons cast them as the villains in the breakdown of the process; now, they've donned the mantle of peacemaker and left the Ulster Unionists to choose between the bad guy role and some sort of short-term happy ending. Unionist leader David Trimble was battling Monday to persuade hard-liners on his own side to at least give serious attention to an IRA offer...
Featuring the highest hype-to-payoff ratio in sports, the 126th Run for the Roses will pack all its punch into two glorious minutes at Churchill Downs, cloaked by the affecting melodrama of a daytime soap, with a cast of characters to match. Here's a thumbnail sketch of this year's edition...
...favored contenders out of the money and produce a winner like last year's 30-1 Charismatic. So watch it for the drama--or if you're short on cash, hop the Blue Line to Suffolk Downs, where there's no shortage of opinions. But remember, soap operas don't often have predictable endings...
...antagonists is one too many. Maybe it's two too many," says Joe Sacco, who spent 4 1/2 months in the former Yugoslavia to report his epic comic book, Safe Area Gorazde (Fantagraphics; 230 pages; $28.95), due out next month. "People can follow what's going on in a soap opera but can't follow what's going on in Bosnia...