Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...findings of its survey with the views of the National Federation for Decency, which was founded in 1977 in Tupelo, Miss., and now publishes a monthly newsletter that attacks what it considers to be distasteful TV programs. Hurt's congregations deemed the five most offensive shows to be Soap (ABC), Three's Company (ABC), Dallas (CBS), Saturday Night Live (NBC) and Charlie's Angels (ABC). The chief sponsors of these programs were General Foods Corp., American Home Products and the Warner-Lambert...
...July Hurt set up a meeting attended by the three sponsoring companies. Warner-Lambert, which was advertising Listerine mouthwash and Dentyne chewing gum, withdrew from Dallas, Charlie's Angels, Soap and Saturday Night Live. A company spokesman said that the change was due to "marketing considerations" and, in the case of Saturday Night Live, to the fact that the company could not prescreen a live program. Hurt then removed Warner-Lambert, the eighth largest television advertiser, with billings of $60 million in 1979, from the boycott list...
...children had simply unlearned centuries of civilization's experience in the field of hygiene; in their bedding, clothing and grooming they had reverted to a state of nature that Rousseau never imagined. Then, gropingly and painfully, they went about reformulating the basic rules of body maintenance: they reinvented soap and water...
...surprise is that they did it: the producers and writers of Dallas. They created the world's largest soap bubble and, in the eight months between the shooting of the expansively evil J.R. (Larry Hagman) and the revelation Friday night, somehow kept it from bursting. Nothing could cure the Dallasmania that infects 300 million viewers in 57 countries-not six months of reruns, not another seven weeks' delay in the fall premiere because of the actors' strike, not three penultimate episodes of red herrings, white knuckles and blue-blooded angst. The people in the know-about...
...essay on Cornell as a puritan, he was "a virtuoso of fragments, a maestro of absences. Each of his objects ... is the emblem of a presence too elusive or too vast to be enclosed in a box." The extreme examples of this were, perhaps, Cornell's cosmogonies-the "Soap Bubble Sets," made in the '40s and early '50s. The metaphor on which they rely is simple, even banal: a likeness between soap bubbles-quavering, iridescent, ephemeral-and the immutable orbits of the solar system, all things linked together by their ideal roundness. You cannot keep a soap...