Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dorofeyev to Krasnodar, a typical provincial city 735 miles south of Moscow, to find out. Dorofeyev was instructed to take only the clothes on his back and a pad and pencil, and to buy everything else that he needed on the spot. The seemingly simple assignment turned into a soap opera, Soviet-style...
Dorofeyev noticed that something was amiss when passengers disembarking from the plane carried off bags crammed full of soap, shaving cream and shampoo. Could it be that Krasnodar was the home of the Great Unwashed? Odd, he thought since an announcement during the flight had proudly identified their destination as the home of a large soap factory. Dorofeyev set out to see for himself with a toiletry-shopping tour...
...when a jubilant Carol Burnett emerged from Los Angeles county superior court last week, hugging fans and signing autographs for jurors. After eight days of testimony and three of deliberation, the jurors had provided a classic Tinseltown ending to a televised trial that was followed as avidly as a soap opera. They awarded Burnett a whopping $1.6 million in damages in her libel suit against the sensation-seeking National Enquirer (circ. 5,100,000). Said the relieved star: "There...
...They move from "Pop", as William Randolph Hearst is still called by his son, to pop radicalism, bank jobs, and Tommy guns in 50 years. Such a book would be one of the great melodramas of the American imagination, with all those American Squirms and disgraces, with all the soap-opera, hucksterism, and sleaze...
...ecologists isolate the patient in a carefully controlled environment. At Brookhaven, for example, Rossall lives in a ceramic-tiled room (she will later move to one covered with porcelain). Her mattress is pure cotton, as are her pillows, sheets and clothes, all of which are washed in unscented baby soap or baking soda. Visitors dress in cotton garments and must not wear makeup, perfume or deodorant. At each meal she eats only one dish-ranging from organically grown vegetables to wild game such as bear and lion-prepared in aluminum pans. She drinks water drawn from several natural springs. Later...