Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invented a series of Dymaxion bathrooms which were excellently designed, but demanded a great deal of their occupants. "Damn it," said an eminent architectural friend of Bucky's, "Bucky thinks people ought to get weighed while sitting on the toilet seat, brushing their teeth with a cake of soap and taking a shower from a fog-gun." An evil light came into the eminent architectural eye. "But I ainta gonta," he said. "I just ainta gonta...
...Experience (weekdays, 11:45 a.m., Du Mont) puts Shakespeare to work writing soap opera. The idea is terrible, but the execution is impressive. Actor Jack Manning, in modern dress and using few props, pretends to be Hamlet's ghost come back to earth to tell about the dark doings at Elsinore. He opens each show with a summary of the action that has gone on before and, using conversational bridges to explain the action, has a fine time getting his histrionic teeth into Hamlet's big speeches...
...Strangers, his autobiography, Sandburg, now 75, remembers his departure thus: "I walked out of the house with my hands free, no bag or bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...
...interested in selling, not in quality, truthfulness, or public service. And a radio system based on the Big Sell is one long stream of advertising, broken up by bits of standardized "entertainment." Most of this is repetitious drivel at best, but commercial radio still spews forth eight hours of soap opera daily because such abominations are a cheap way to Sell. Somehow, people accept all this as the cost of "free" radio broadcasting, but recently the networks have raised the price. Radio has taken on aspects of political indoctrination as well...
...more important of Crosby's attributes, for as he admits himself, even a limited critical insight can recognize the ridiculous aspects of radio and television. And with commercials, soap operas, and give-away shows, any reviewer finds Sitting Duck the staple fare of networks and channels...