Word: soaping
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...becoming Prime Minister in 1988, she has hopscotched into and out of power with archrivals Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was ousted by military coup in 1999, and Musharraf. For the past 20 years those names have dominated the Pakistani political scene. "It really is like a soap opera," says Haq. "Year after year we still see the same faces, the same plot and the same kind of deal making." And it seems, the formulaic cliffhangers...
...prayer at home or at the local mosque, daytime hours spent in fasting - a period bookended by sumptuous pre-dawn and sundown meals. The combination of piety and celebration turns the Arab World into a juggling act as people keep up religious rituals along with the TV marathon of soap operas and entertaining family and friends. Ramadan just isn't the right time for business...
Juanita Bynum's story may read like soap opera, but her travails are a reminder of the longtime magnetism between celebrity Pentecostal preachers and scandal. The 48-year-old regular on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) made her reputation with a sermon renouncing pre-marital sex to search for a holy partner. She appeared to find one in a minister named Thomas Weeks III, wed him in a $1 million on-air ceremony, and together they went out to preach and teach the perfect Christian marriage. Then, in August she accused him of badly beating her in a parking...
...world's attention with its dramatic contest between a Moscow ally and opposition forces that eventually took to the streets in the peaceful "Orange Revolution" to claim the victory their candidate won at the polls. By contrast, this Sunday's Verkhovna Rada legislative election seems like an endless soap opera with the same tired cast of characters struggling to keep the audience awake...
Though war and a stunted economy have soured life for most young Lebanese, Beirut has been home to a small but artistically significant rock scene whose handful of bands, with names like Soap Kills and the New Government, have tried to put this tiny country on the music map for something other than sexy Arab pop divas. They've been part of a creative subculture of artists, architects and designers who have tried to reconcile Eastern with Western cultural forms, as well as tradition with modernity...