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WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO good people: this is a dominant theme of literature and drama through the ages, from the Book of Job to Dostoyevsky novels to most soap operas and TV movies. It is also the story line of the Chinese film The Blue Kite -- and the story behind the suppression of this bold, masterly work...
...There are certain paradigms that literatureand philosophy give you about humanexperience--the paradigms of sin and redemption,of exile, of love and betrayal, of forbiddenknowledge," he adds. "Soap operas give us theseparadigms all the time, so why don't we give themat a level of higher artistic merit...
...other halls, police broke through barricades, struggled up stairs soaked with soap and dragged students, face down, out of the buildings. Passive resistance had turned into...
Consider, for example, what happened to me andmy friend John G. Short '70 during the 1968 Dowsit-in. A recruiter had come to campus from DowChemical, the company that made napalm, analuminum soap made of various fatty acids which,when dropped from planes in wartime, wouldsometimes burn the backs off children. Dow bacamea symbol of greedy corporate investment in the warin Southeast Asia...
...network's limited schedule -- the fact that Fox is only a part-time network -- that made it attractive. Fox offers just 15 hours of prime-time shows a week (in contrast to 22 for the Big Three); it has no morning programming, no afternoon soap operas and no evening newscast. Today many stations see this not as a drawback but as an opportunity to program more of their schedule themselves, both with locally produced shows and with syndicated fare. These shows give stations a chance to earn more ad revenue because they make available more local advertising spots than...