Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean in what could be a mockery of the Jewish rites of forgiveness and absolution...
Mucked Down, Padded Out. Mrs. Crist is not only honest; she is blunt. She wrote of Where Love Has Gone: "A trashy dose of sex-and-soap . . . being palmed off on us on the premise that we go to the movies to see smuttied-up, padded-out, mucked-down television serials in Technicolor and Techniscope." Of Anne Bancroft's performance in The Pumpkin Eater, she said: "She seems a cowlike creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis...
...PRIVATE WORLD (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of CBS's contribution to night-time soap opera, a new version of their successful daytime As the World Turns. Lisa Hughes (played by Eileen Fulton) begins a new life by moving to Chicago and working for the University Hospital...
...into the truck and snorts: "I'm going to run over him-he'll never know what hit him." Later, wintering in the high country where they are hired to round up stray cattle, Ford muses moodily over whether he would rather see the roan made into soap or into dog food...
...sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys out of assorted stuffed shirts-judges, politicians, business tycoons-who are unlucky enough to stumble upon the idyllic world of Dogpatch. The grandmummy of soap-opera strips, Mary Worth, who evolved from a seedy apple seller to today's genteel gadabout, has spawned innumerable imitators: Brenda Starr (girl reporter), Dondi (boy orphan), On Stage (actress), Apartment 3-G (career girls). Along with soap, Rex Morgan, M.D. dispenses medical advice on everything from leprosy...