Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and a whole cast of characters have filled the newspapers for the past several weeks with all the makings of a tabloid soap opera: sex, lies, videotape and a huge media frenzy. Yet, though the recent accusations may be sensational, it is important to remember that they are nothing more than speculation at this point. We simply don't yet know the facts of the case. They may not be fully available for months or years, if ever. Until we know more, any attempt to pass judgment on the President rests on little more than speculation...
...fondness for tight, chest-hugging outfits and her coquettish demeanor. Another sobriquet was the Stalker, inspired by her steadfast rush toward the presidential helicopter whenever its whirr announced a landing. She was a child of Beverly Hills privilege--and the product of a bitterly broken home. She delighted in soap operas and glitter; yet she gravitated toward the political hotbed of Washington. She is now the face, the name for scandal, her image frozen in public first impression with that wide smile, in that less-than-flattering photograph. But as her lawyer said last week, she is also a young...
...more fulfilling time. In her senior year, Lewinsky made valedictorian in a class of seven. In the school yearbook Monica's senior year, a classmate calls Lewinsky her "guardian angel." Lewinsky's page included dedications to her parents, her brother and her friends and a paean to her favorite soap opera, Days of Our Lives. The page is also dotted with quotes from Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Wordsworth--and Dr. Seuss ("It's fun to have fun but you have to know how"). Her classmates voted her "most likely to have her name in lights...
...story of the Girls of Winter Past--part tragedy, part comedy, all soap opera--"is not a real happy tale," says agent Michael Rosenberg, even though these four have helped make skating so popular that $1 million annual incomes for name skaters are now routine. Rosenberg represents 41 skaters and, with exquisite timing, dumped Harding as a client just days before the clubbing because her husband was making him nuts. "You've got Nancy with her stock suffering, Oksana never winning another competition...Katia [Gordeeva's nickname] is the only one now of the four...
...interview was taped two weeks ago in Colorado--along with some skating, for which Baiul, Gordeeva and Katerina Witt, according to a published report, refused to be in the same building as Harding; Tonya was banished to an outdoor rink. This lovely episode of Soap Stars on Ice will air Feb. 5, just before opening ceremonies at the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan...