Soap operas

The serial TV programs known as soap operas earned their name in the USA at a time when much of a program-maker s funding came from adverts for household soap. 

It s not some blasted soap opera Skoglund gave up on the instrument panel and stared contemptuously at Fitz. He let out a snarling sigh. Very well, if it will keep you quiet. He strode over to Fitz s couch and started tapping in some sort of mathematical formula on the keyboard attached to its headrest. 

What is perhaps most significant about Sergei s soap opera analogy is the reminder that the world of the dacha is profoundly paradoxical. Like soap operas, dachas are settings where emotional, social, economic, and... 

Soap operas will continue to be popular not only because they distract us from our daily chores but also because they present life as we want it to be fast-paced, glamorous, and full of exciting characters. 

Addiction can be defined as a habitual form of behaviour. It need not be harmful. For example, one can be addicted to eating chocolate or watching television without suffering more than a bad case of toothache or a surplus of soap operas. 

It transformed us from minor bit players in a zoological soap opera into evolutionary superstars, with all the attendant dangers of vanity, hubris and indifference to the fate of others that such an analogy carries with It. 221... 

Over the years, the term melodrama has increasingly taken on a negative implication. It is associated with soap opera, exclusively with romantic women s stories, and with a dramatic device best characterized as exaggeration (as opposed to realism, or a story that is simply more believable). Although all of the above has a hint of truth, each is too narrow an approach to melodrama and keeps us away from the usefulness of melodrama as a form. 

Later, I realized that an astrological chart is as complicated as a long-running soap opera (and in the hands of a skilled astrologer, almost as predictable). A chart includes the Sun, the Moon, eight planets, twelve houses, and more. But the core of almost every horoscope is the Sun. 

If amorous Venus and unconventional Uranus link up in your birth chart, you re likely to be the impetuous star of your own romantic soap opera. 

Douglas s biggest problem is that he has become part of a soap opera, fed by envy, one of our great national pastimes, the botanist Adriana Hoffman told the press—one of the few voices in Chile... 

Anticipate resistance. If you are going to propose a history of the American soap opera as a way to look at important themes in American cultural and social history and women s history, be prepared for the reviewer whose first instinct is to laugh. Get some experts on your side and, with them, make your case. Answer the naysayers with solid research. Producers have gotten funding for films on all sorts of subjects that might not, at first glance, have seemed "suitable."... 

Seddon, A. M., Cumow, P., Booth, P. J. (2004). Membrane proteins, hpids and detergents Not just a soap opera. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1666, 105—117. 

As software project failures made front-page news, the tit for tat between the software providers and the industry leaders became the new soap opera. 

As with his "Atom" namesake, creation by committee proved hard on Captain Atom. Soon the DC hero became involved in soap opera... 

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