Word: lula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected, the first-round leader was the crusading center-rightist * Fernando Collor de Mello, a former state governor. At week's end, two candidates who split the leftist vote were deadlocked for the second slot: Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Leonel Brizola...
...wealthy Collor, 40, gained national attention by attacking his state's bureaucratic "maharajas." The radical socialist Lula, 44, left school after the eighth grade, became a lathe operator and entered union politics. The old- style populist Brizola, 67, was once governor of Rio de Janeiro state...
...five singles. Name those tunes and, very likely, you can sing a chorus, along with all the Lauper loopies who cover the age spectrum, from dress-alike five-year-olds to grannies gone groovy: All Through the Night; She Bop, which inverted Gene Vincent's classic Be-Bop-a-Lula into a thoroughly unapologetic paean to female autoeroticism; Time After Time; and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a kind of antic feminist anthem that helped get Cyndi on the cover of Ms. as one of its women of the year. No other woman has made an album...
...Detroit's west side, the Lula Belle Stewart Center last year gave practical help and counseling to more than 700 teen-age mothers and fathers, nearly all black. One of the center's typical clients is Donna, 15. Her parents are heroin addicts, and her month-old-child's father has been charged with burglary. But her future is not absolutely hopeless: the center has taught her the rudiments of infant care, found her a doctor and persuaded her to return to school...
Surely those six girls were lovely; certainly they were daring. Lula Easton gave an oration called "Sculptors of Government." One wonders if she dwelt on Chester A. Arthur, the first voluptuary to hold the presidency. Even then he was planning to decorate the White House to resemble a gambling parlor. (Harry Truman claimed that the self-indulgent Arthur harbored a woman of sin on the premises.) Back then, Greenfield High School's Nellie Garlock may have had all this in mind when she recited "Virtue's Laurels...