Word: soaping
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It’s a profound misunderstanding of the modern world. The people now look up to the “chorus line of soap stars and homosexuals” that mourned gracefully at the funeral. As Elizabeth finally changes, she truly understands Shakespeare’s line, quoted at the beginning of the film, “uneasy lies the head that wears a crown...
...breakout hit, which has its third season premiere Thursday at 9 p.m., has nothing to do with medicine or science and everything to do with chemistry - the romantic kind. Whether they are high-school girls experiencing their first big crush or their mothers relishing a good nighttime soap - hordes of whom watch the show together as a mother-daughter bonding ritual - fans of the show all want to know whom surgical intern Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) will pick as her lover, McDreamy or McVet...
...Several other recurring threads also keep the show full of soap opera-like drama. Raised in a deeply religious setting, Lonelyboy43 evidently has a number of repressed conflicts with his father that he has yet to confront. Fan postings reveal a great deal of empathy for him in his struggles: "Ur dad is such a controll freak!!!" writes sk8rdooode16. "Don't let him run ur life 4u. Have faith in urself...
...President Daniel arap Moi's oppressive rule, Ngugi wrote Matigari, a novel whose eponymous hero travels the country protesting against the regime. Because [an error occurred while processing this directive] Matigari posed questions Kenyans were afraid to ask, they talked about him as if he were real, the way soap-opera fans and comic-book lovers do. "The regime thought there was a guy actually going around asking 'Where can a person find truth and justice in this land?,'" says Ngugi. "So Moi sent the police to arrest him." Realizing the character was fictional, they arrested the book instead...
...wave of the future seems to be radio-frequency identification, a transmitter smaller than a dime that can be embedded in anything from ID cards to key fobs to hospital bracelets (to safeguard newborns, for instance). Now consider Compliance Control's HyGenius system, which detects restaurant employees' handwashing and soap usage with wireless communication from clothing tags. Skip the soap, and you are in hot water...