Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even though the House has threatened to retaliate by withholding $56 million in foreign aid. "There is nothing more we can do," Jaworski said last week. "It has been decided at a very high level that under no circumstances will [Kim] talk. And so we're completely out of soap...
...emergence to compare with Napoleon's journey out of Elban exile to try to regain France. Nor was it precisely the great soap opera of redemption that occurred in the mid-'50s when the American people decided that Ingrid Bergman, disgraced adulteress, might be restored to favor. But somewhere in the historic procession from the majestic to the trivial, one might plausibly place Richard Nixon's trip to Hyden, Ky., over the Fourth of July weekend...
This show is a roller coaster of merriment, with hairpin turns of plot, zany swoops of emotion and a breakneck tempo. But for fanciers of substance in entertainment, soap bubbles would be solider. Kaufman and Hart twisted their comic vise on Hollywood at just the time the movie colony was panicking over emergent speech. Jolson had sung; could Shakespeare be far behind? In panic, Hollywood raided Broadway for its voices...
...vegetarian tribe could be effectively sickened and confused by flooding the jungle with the concentrated body odor of meat eaters. During the 1960s Congo rebellion, another Pentagon study investigated the possibility of creating "special magic potions" for use by friendly Congolese troops. In Viet Nam, American forces distributed "propaganda soap" layered with anti-Viet Cong messages, and experimented at Cam Ranh Bay with dolphins in underwater surveillance and detection...
...have grown up, so she discusses the many ways in which they fail as visitors: "Your A-l house guest does not usually bring along his dirty laundry." She has more time on her hands, so she has been able to acquire and then kick an addiction to TV soap operas: "In my experience, the only thing you can quit cold turkey is cold turkey." She notes how hard it is for parents to write newsy letters to their mature offspring: "It's too bad that the kid isn't interested in your bronchitis or the fact that...