Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole thing was as stylized as the synopsis of a soap-opera plot. Exasperated by India's refusal to support the U.S. position in the United Nations, Congress was in no mood, week before last, to discuss India's plea for 2,000,000 tons of grain to feed its famine-threatened millions. Texas' Senator Tom Connally had pointedly announced that India would have to wait while a Foreign Relations subcommittee "looked into" the whole question of U.S.-Indian relations. Would Congress relent? Would India be left to starve...
...profession, he had a trick of preparing his brief, then preparing an opposing brief just to test and sharpen the arguments he would use in court. A spellbinder before juries, he won the celebrated alienation-of-affection suit known as Woodhouse v. Woodhouse. For his client, a lowly soap salesman's daughter wooed and won, then spurned, by the son of one of Vermont's wealthiest, haughtiest families, Austin wangled a record jury award: $465,000, a high price for affection-especially in Vermont. (The judge cut it down...
...movie gets the benefit of solid performances by Actors Calleia and Bickford, plus Director Rudolph Mate's efficient handling of a last-reel chase. But, like everything else in this saddle soap opera, the assets are defeated by the unstinted heroics of deadpan Actor Ladd...
...Balance Wheel was plainly intended to be read as a political-economic allegory. Veteran Caldwell fans may ignore such implications, and read the book for the same reason they listen to soap opera: to get the dirt, dished by an expert, on a dozen or more private lives...
There is no question that Novelist Caldwell knows how to serve up her gossip with relish. And in the process, she occasionally produces the same kind of little home truths that a good soap-opera scripter turns out. Readers who find it worthwhile to wade through 496 pages of Novelist Caldwell's fast typing in search of such finds will undoubtedly set sales of The Balance Wheel to rising as merrily as those of its twelve predecessors...