Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven prisoners, lodged in an upstairs cell block of the Dallas County Courthouse, overpowered a guard and started a dramatic getaway. One of them, brandishing a "pistol" carved out of soap and blackened with shoe polish, pushed his way into the crowded second-floor corridor of the courthouse...
...down in the melee was a 19year-old pregnant stripteaser, Karen Lynn Bennett, professionally known as "Little Lynn," who was on hand as the first defense witness. Shrieked Little Lynn, after one look at the soap-gun: "Oh, my God! He's after me!" He wasn't. But there followed a scuffle, and within minutes the fellow with the soap and one other escapee were recaptured. The other five drifted through the confused crowds. Some were caught later, but a few got away. Television and still cameras caught most of the action. And the trial of Jack Ruby...
...loud enough for everyone to hear. I'd talk about suicide and Freud. I made sure they knew me. I would act crazy. They sent me up for jobs to get me out of their office. Sometimes it was just a two-week stint on a soap opera, but I worked. I can't stand actors who sit around on their rumps waiting for Otto Preminger to come to them and say, 'I've seen your artistry. Nobody is going to see your artistry. You can always wait on table and check hats with no loss...
...major treasure trove was the still-unpublished diary of Wilson's doctor, Admiral Gary Grayson, which contained many a clinical detail that Grayson had discreetly left out of his own book about Wilson, published in 1960. Though his history sometimes reads like soap opera, Smith is a conscientious researcher, as Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges in an admiring introduction. Biographer Smith demonstrates that Edith Wilson was much more powerful than anyone has suspected, and her husband much more incapacitated...
...Dreams may last a few minutes to an hour, but average 20 minutes. >Events in a dream happen about as fast as corresponding events in reality. > Occasionally a sleeper has a series of related dreams, like soap-opera installments, and sometimes a common thread runs through two or more dreams like a leitmotiv. >Outside events, such as the noise of opening and closing doors, are rarely incorporated in the dreamer's libretto...