Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). If it appeared in the daytime, The Winslow Boy might look like a soap opera, but Terence Rattigan's old school tie has a habit of glowing in the dark; with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Siobhan McKenna, Rex Thompson, Denholm Elliott...
...written, the story is a soap opera...
...reasonable and the rest of the family so viciously irrational that the moviegoer may find himself confused about which belfry the bats are really in. But as played, the film is often a remarkably intense and intelligent study of close relationships-the rare sort of drama that demonstrates how soap opera at its best can bear a true and moving resemblance to life at its worst...
Stumbling on a tin of saddle soap, Vag entered the Gentlemen's Changing Room. Tanned faces looked suspiciously at his colored sport shirt and chinos, tired veterans of many Cambridge laundry campaigns...
...story apartment house that he hoped would be dropped from a Zeppelin on the North Pole, he designed projects ranging from a house that was hung from a duralumin mast to bathrooms with no running water (only an air hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap needed). Among his other Dymaxion ("dynamic" plus "maximum service") products have been a three-wheel, rear-engined automobile and a house that can be stowed away in an aluminum container. None of them ever went into mass production. Bucky got a reputation as a man of tomorrow for whom tomorrow never came...