
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 14, 1994                   TAG: 9405170033
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT

SO SOMEBODY named Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia won the Tour DuPont's time trial on Monday. What happened on "Another World"?

WSLS-TV, of course, expected to get some complaints because the station had pre-empted a couple of soaps to provide live coverage of the big bike race's debut in the Roanoke Valley. (It had arranged to air the pre-empted shows at 2:05 a.m. and 3:05 a.m. Tuesday so true devotees could stay up to watch them or tape them for daytime viewing.)

What it hadn't expected was that it would get as many, if not more, complaints from males as from females about the missing soaps.

Thus, another stereotype down the tube. Real men do eat quiche, too.

by CNB