Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essay on "The Late Benjamin Franklin" there occurs the following reminiscence: "When I was a child I had to boil soap, notwithstanding my father was wealthy, and I had to get up early and study geometry at breakfast, and peddle my own poetry and do everything just as Franklin did, in the solemn hope that I would be a Franklin some day. And here...
...will culminate in a universal merger movement would be premature. The world is far from the Orwellian prediction of a globe divided into three continental states. But surely the unconscious emulation of the super-state pattern perceivable in regionalist unions will have more influence on world history than boiling soap had on the life of Mark Twain...
...been richer if the film, like the book, had firmly stated and thoughtfully evolved its theme: only those who can suffer can love, only those who can love can live. Instead, the picture lolly-gags along, until the hideous orgy of the goums, like a nice, country-faced, un-soaped soap opera. As such, it is nevertheless lively and diverting. Belmondo, who in Breathless emerged in one catlike bound as the French Bogart, here plays the polar opposite of that part and plays it with wit and sensitivity. And Loren, though hardly the woman Moravia had in mind, makes...
...Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Broadway hit about Chicago's black belt makes a superior soap opera...
...conflict, a valid moral struggle, character development and people one can care about and respect" (Theater) is "superior soap opera in blackface" (Cinema) then we, who have been in radio and television these many years, have been doing Procter & Gamble a disservice...