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...BOTTOM LINE: Bergman's back and Bille's got him, for a handsome soap opera with a radiant star performance...
Adlai Stevenson was appalled. "This isn't Ivory soap vs. Palmolive," he said. "I think the American people will be shocked by such contempt for their intelligence." With four years to rethink, Stevenson got the message. In a technique repeated subsequently whenever the "outs" face an incumbent, Stevenson in 1956 recounted Ike's unfulfilled 1952 promises. "How's that again, General?" Stevenson intoned endlessly, adding, "Yes, it's time for a change...
...organizing excursions to restaurants and shops. They help one another set daily goals: cook breakfast, buy Mom a birthday card, look for a job. They also learn to do mundane chores: washing clothes in the hospital laundry room and cooking in a tiny employee kitchen. Nothing is easy. Soap goes into the washing machines, but clothes are often forgotten. Because schizophrenics have certain cognitive problems, they have trouble generalizing the principles behind the chores. Thus learning to fry chicken doesn't mean they will know how to cook a hamburger. Technical skills can be mastered only by constant repetition...
...sadder disappointment. The ABC comedy comes from David Lynch and Mark Frost, who shook up network TV with their brilliantly perverse soap opera Twin Peaks. This time the pair have come up with a sitcom about a ragtag TV network in the 1950s. Must have sounded great in the story conferences...
International TV programming is the great terra incognita for American viewers. The occasional British mini-series or Australian soap opera makes its way to these shores, via PBS or cable, and news sometimes filters back about the latest hit on Japanese TV or those funny foreign versions of Wheel of Fortune. But for most of the U.S. audience, TV in the non-English-speaking world remains trapped in the twilight zone...