Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. Hair, despite artistic shortcomings, legitimized nudity on stage, previously only experimented with in partial or shrouded conditions to insure standards of "redeeming artistic value." Television asserted itself, legitimately or not, in our living rooms, raising a generation on a steady diet of situation comedy, game show and soap opera. It was the '60s generation which, at decade's end, gathered its countercultural offshoots at the three-day Woodstock "celebration," a rock festival that has been symbolically praised or blamed for everything right, or wrong, with the 1960s...
Most Compelling Soap Opera: The Watergate hearings, 319 hours of high-tension melodrama centered on that age-old theme-Did he or didn...