Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOW. Styled after the sappy smile of Mad magazine's trademark moron, Alfred E. Neuman, this revue tickles where it might have stung. But its cast still reaches the funny bone, satirizing everything from soap-flake operas to hi-fi nuts...
...Since Batman went on TV in January, LCA has signed up 53 major companies for Batman products, and 45 other contracts are being negotiated. The licensees make every kind of item to which a Batman insignia can be stuck, sewn or stapled. Colgate-Palmolive is marketing Batbath bubble soap. Hallmark is bringing out Batman greeting cards. Toy companies, including Mattel, Ideal, Louis Marx and Remco, are turning out Batman toys. There are Batmasks, Batcapes, Batkites, Batbuttons, Batpuppets and Batguns as well as jackets, pajamas, towels, quilts, wallets, bathing suits, lunch boxes and pencil cases with Batman insignia on them...
...SHOW. With only a passing nod to Mad magazine, this revue satirizes TV kiddie shows, soap-flake operas, recording stars. It has more jaw than teeth, but the show is entertaining...
...home, too, he was running into trouble. Shortages of such basic items as soap and matches were felt in every home, and most Ghanaians deeply resented his government's blatant corruption. At least five attempts have been made to assassinate him. Nkrumah's answer was to crack down even further, increase his security guard-and to retreat behind the four walls of his palace. He reportedly took to wearing a bullet-proof vest, nervously kept five bullet-proof Rolls-Royces ready to carry him around Accra, waiting until the last minute to choose the one he would ride...
...Worst Hours. If there is ever a time when Rubinstein is not his gregarious, fun-loving self, it is in the hours before a concert. If he arrives early, he likes to watch television (he knows the plots of all the soap operas) or go to the movies?any movie. He will practice scales in thirds under his hat while he watches the film, and in the taxi later, he will drum out the right-hand portion of a Chopin etude. Back at the hotel room, as Nela Rubinstein fiddles nervously with her gold necklace, her husband will warm...