Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murder mysteries, soap operas, and historical treatises rub covers with the papers of women who led suffrage, temperance, and educational crusades. These more famous records of important American women are shelved opposite publications by Radcliffe graduates, books on women, and the records of the college itself. The special collection on Women's Rights is placed separately in 203 Longfellow Hall...
...some miracle of restraint, none of the participants in this macabre soap opera claimed that the bomb made marvelous underwater suds...
...movie set in Rome saw some off-camera soap opera when high-strung Cinemactress Shelley (A Place in the Sun) Winters, in the midst of a scene, spotted her estranged husband, Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman on the set with the other woman, Italian Actress Anna Maria Ferrero. Shelley tossed a hand mirror at Gassman, clawed his face, was aiming a roundhouse right at Anna Maria when Actress Winters' coworkers corralled her long enough for Gassman and friend to escape...
...general, the more money a quiz show gives away the less entertainment it offers. By this standard, Strike It Rich, Break the Bank and a dozen others rate even below daytime soap operas as adult amusement. Quiz shows, which currently make up about 20% of network programming, have been gradually dropping in popularity. Each summer the percentage makes a sudden rise as inexpensive quizzes are thrown into the breach left by vacationing winter shows, but few of them survive into the following season. One network executive may have been speaking for most of the industry when, asked what he thinks...
...advance assurance to bookdealers that it is "an absorbing, down-to-earth novel about real people responding to the real stuff of everyday human experience." The book may sell well, at that. A first novel by Massachusetts' William Gibson, it sticks to the oldest rule in soap opera: it gets its characters in trouble and keeps them there...