Word: soapopera
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Socialite Claus von Bulow did not testify during the retrial which acquitted him last year because his legal advisers wanted the jury to focus on medical rather than "soapopera testimony," said von Bulow's lawyer, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz in his upcoming book, "Reversal of Fortune...
...explored the American Dream and the American family in one incarnation or another since the early fifties. For the most part television producers have restricted their perspectives to the outlook of the situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses into...
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