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Wetherby owes equal allegiance to the anguished conundrums of Ingmar Bergman and to the 1967 Harold Pinter film Accident, another story of academics in rural England, a young man who dies violently and his mysterious death-magnet of a girlfriend. It can even be seen as an upscale soap opera, in which a decent spinster finally stumbles into a mature, equitable relationship with the local policeman. But Hare is after much more: the composite portrait of middle-class England, a community in which an affable exterior hides sexual crimes behind the privet hedge. The casting coup of Redgrave...
...mind needs its illusions. One thinks of the story of a mother walking with her child. A stranger exclaims, "What a lovely girl!" The mother replies, "That's nothing, you should see her picture!" Sometimes the actors who play villains in television soap operas have women come up and slap them in restaurants. The dreams become more intense than the moments of conscious vision...
...wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo and Omo laundry detergent, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5¢ each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon village, where he ties up and makes deliveries to half a dozen small shops. The local farmers may be poor, but they have the same needs and desires as middle-class urbanites, and Hon's business is growing. He sells hundreds of thousands of soap and shampoo packets a month, enough...
...Desperate Housewives. What do you make of the show's success? Some people are watching it because they think it's a soap. That's why I'm attracted to it--it's a send-up of a genre of television...
...which roof boards will later rest. Babcock casually knots the free end of the rope around the beams, then signals his crew of four. Under their weight, the groaning capstan turns. The rope creaks. The beams refuse to budge. Babcock fiddles with pulleys, then applies a greasing of Ivory soap where rope meets capstan. "We call this making adjustments," he says cheerfully. "Next, we pray...