Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues were the most effective printed way to gain support. They instilled insecurity--questions like, "Would I get a raise?" or "Would I have a voice?" were answered by "Maybe, maybe not." A successful career woman (and mother) was picked to head the anti-union campaign and to appeal to a staff that is 83 percent female...
...Democratic platform would appeal to many who attend conservative Christian churches each week. The Democrats have protected programs for the elderly, kept Reagan's hands off the school lunch programs, and they've protested when the Republican have gone after food stamps and other programs which benefit the poor, the elderly, and the sick...
...show, which opened last week amid a hubbub of publicity, blends snob appeal with raw marquee value. The playwright, David Mamet, won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his previous Broadway effort, Glengarry Glen Ross, and has since become a hot film writer (The Untouchables) and director (House of Games). The shy but surprising secretary is played by Rock Star Madonna (Material Girl, Like a Virgin), whose program biography cites "13 consecutive top five recordings, bettered only by Elvis and the Beatles." While reviewers seemed transfixed by the question "Can she act?" -- most said no -- audiences seemed not to care. Advance...
...this a lovely day? Jerome Kern once summed up Berlin's place in & American popular music by observing: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." Way back when, George M. Cohan spotted the appeal of the man who had "named himself after an English actor and a German city." Berlin, said the Yankee doodle dandy, "writes a song with a good lyric, a lyric that rhymes, good music, music you don't have to dress up to listen to. He is uptown, but he is there with the old downtown hard sell...
...barnstorming dash, Chirac will seek to appeal to both the center- right and Le Pen voters. The Premier flatly ruled out any deals with the National Front, but he said he would address "the worries" of extreme-right voters. Chirac mentioned "all those who want security and to be assured that delinquency, criminality and terrorism will be fought with the necessary firmness; that our national identity will be preserved; that clandestine immigration will be fought...