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Word: triscuit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 1978, established the pattern: a big, powerful family whose obsession with sex and money makes them miserable and the TV audience insatiable; guilt-edged lust that skulks through the generations, seeking spectacular revenge; feuds and affairs that seep over the interwoven plots like warm Brie over a Triscuit. These mechanisms had propelled daytime drama-the radio and TV soaps-for nearly half a century before the Dallas pioneers, Lorimar Productions, streamlined them for prime time. Dallas proved that mobile America would sit still each week for a continuing story of byzantine complexity. Since the current TV season began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Season of the Nightsoaps | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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