Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lombardo. On New Year's Day, the Fords invited some of their Midwestern friends -Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, Wisconsin's John Byrne and Melvin Laird, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor and their wives-to a White House dinner. The point of the informal gathering was to watch Ford's alma mater, the University of Michigan, uphold the Midwest's football prestige by thumping the University of Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. But Michigan lost...
...Warhol, who are among the 10 million followers of As the World Turns, or to Novelist Dan Wakefield, who often bursts into tears at 12:30 when the plangent music of All My Children wells up. At Princeton, something like a quarter of the student body drops everything to watch The Young and the Restless each afternoon. When Agnes Nixon, who created a campus favorite, All My Children, asked a group of Duke University students why they watched the soaps, a young man replied: "It's the only constant in our lives...
Seen one, seen 'em all, say cynics. For all their huge popularity and moneymaking capacity, the soaps are something of a mystery hit. For the uninitiated, there is only one word that really describes them: weird. To watch a soap is to be drawn into an enclosed and not particularly welcoming world...
...antimale. "First, they show how men exploit women, and second, in a crisis the men are impotent." This may help explain the soaps' unique aspect. Nowhere else in life or drama are both men and women seen to be equally interested in emotional relationships. Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who frequently watches the soaps with the blue-collar and poor families who are the subjects of his studies, thinks they have a philosophic impact. He recalls a working-class woman "who sits down to watch a soap, then turns it off and asks herself what is really the existential question: What...
...Granddaughter Gwen (Mary Layne) have dabbled in or are toying with an actress's favorite form of early retirement - marriage. Harris, of course, is one of the most impeccable comediennes of the English-speaking stage and has the kind of exquisite timing that might make a Swiss watch blush...