Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOYCOTT serves a two-fold purpose. First, if it catches on, it may cut into Stevens's profit margin; in this case, the old adage, "money talks," is unfortunately apropos. More likely, though, the boycott will succeed in bringing broad-based political pressure to bear on recalcitrant executives; it might even force the government to take more drastic action in enforcing...
...convention set the needed vote total for the Constitution's ratification at half the number of undergraduates--over 3100 votes--to ensure that any government will have broad-based support. We urge every student to vote in the election. Collective action depends on compromise--without it you get a stalemate. This stalemate has gone on for far too long. It's time to bring...
While I admire Senator Zorinsky's zest for independent decision making, I feel the story illuminates a faulty, if common, misconception of senatorial responsibility. With respect to matters of broad national concern, a legislator should represent his constituency by making the decision he feels will best serve the overall interest of the country. A Senator who makes every judgment while looking toward the next election serves neither his country nor his state...
...have never met a dumber broad," complains Bette Midler. Who could it be? Why, the Divine Miss M happens to be describing the Divine Miss M. The occasion: an interview with herself for the tenth-anniversary issue of After Dark magazine. She also appears on the cover, kicking up her heels above a sea of balloons. Soon she will be kicking off her first movie, which, she promises, is "nothing with flying saucers. Nothing with sharks." The Rose is the story of a flamboyant, 1960s blues singer. "It's not about Janis Joplin. It's about a blues...
...German family, the equivalent of American Jews who think of themselves first as Americans. We didn't want to do Fiddler on the Roof Jews, although they were prime victims of the Holocaust. We were afraid they would vitiate what we were trying to do-appeal to a broad audience." Though the Weisses are products of Green's imagination, the historical framework of Holocaust is, of course, not. The show was exhaustively researched. Besides relying on the vast literature on the Third Reich and Green's previous interviews with death-camp survivors, Titus consulted with religious leaders...