Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even without its star, First, You Cry would be superior television. The unusually high-powered cast includes Anthony Perkins, Jennifer Warren and Florence Eldridge as Rollin's family and friends. Director George Schaefer helps keep the story from sliding into soap opera. Carmen Culver's script is not afraid to deal frankly with the physiological, psychological, sexual and social cruelties of cancer. It is Moore, however, who gives what is essentially a public service drama its surprisingly fine emotional texture...
...Zambia's economy has dwindled toward disaster. Landlocked, Zambia needed transit routes through Rhodesia to southern Africa's ports for its main export, copper. After the boycott closed the Rhodesian borders, scarce alternative routes disappeared, world copper prices declined, and Zambia began running short of food, machinery, oil fertilizer, soap and coal. Inflation ballooned to 30%, fueled partly by expensive airfreight shipments to speed goods, and foreign debt climbed to $1.5 billion...
...water and a package of tea leaves. There are also small red ants in the bed, but they are not predatory. The Kweil-inese are trying, however. A paper strip across the toilet seat announces, in Chinese and English: DISINFECTED. There are two differently scented bars of soap, both pink; the toilet paper, also pink, is labeled (in English) Kapok, The Most Luxurious Toilet Tissue...
...which talk is often used to hide rather than reveal emotion, Natalya's passion is well camouflaged until she discovers that a similar chemical reaction has set in between her 17-year-old ward Vera (Amanda Michael Plummer) and the tutor. As Natalya schemes against Vera like a soap opera villainess, every sort of womanly hell breaks loose. In the end, Vera, Rakitin and Aleksei depart, leaving Natalya sad der but, one suspects, not a whit wiser...
...alternative to routes through southern Africa, never became fully operational, because of theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...