Word: soaps
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...barricaded themselves in their houses, sealing the windows and doors. As they cowered, they gulped down comet pills or sniffed on comet inhalers. Braver sorts wearing comet-shaped diamond hatpins or toting comet-knobbed walking canes flocked to rooftop parties at the old Waldorf-Astoria. In advertisements, bars of soap and cans of coffee were depicted flying through space, feathery tails in their wake. Comet mania was at fever pitch, and freewheeling entrepreneurs were everywhere, peddling their wares...
Faint praise, perhaps, at a time when network mini-series have sunk to the soap-opera drivel of North and South and Kane & Abel. But Bleak House is also a step above the general run of tony, tasteful and sometimes tedious British drawing-room dramas that arrive regularly on these shores. There is, for one thing, scarcely a drawing room to be found. The beautifully detailed production moves with ease from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums...
MOST IRRESISTIBLE CALORIC BINGE Not to be confused with the soap of the same name, the DoveBar is old news in Chicago but attained stardom in supermarkets and on street corners around the country in '85. The hard-to-handle quarter-pound ice-cream bar has a crackling coating of dark chocolate candy. Invented in the early 1950s by Chicago Confectioner Leo Stefanos, this frozen dessert melts all resistance even at prices that range from...
...television soap opera could run for years on the bare facts of this novel's characters and plot. The major developments all affect Harry Cuno, a handsome, charming dilettante who lives in a Bloomsbury house and whose dead father was once a popular highbrow novelist. Harry has had two wives, both of whom died young. For the past two years he has conducted a secret, passionate affair with his second wife's younger sister Midge, who is married to a Scottish, half-Jewish psychiatrist named Thomas McCaskerville. Harry wants Midge to leave her husband, and her stalling makes him fretful...
...chamber urge "saving up, bit by bit, the most precious capital there is--trust among nations and peoples." That's the lingo of capitalists, and it must have found its mark. There was only a smattering of complaints from viewers who preferred to see the Rose Parade or the soap All My Children. No such gripes were reported from Moscow, where Reagan led the 9 p.m. news. His appearance was not billed in advance, but the Soviet audience may have reached 150 million. For them, it was a mild shock, certainly a rarity. The last time a U.S. President...