Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, they tally all the number one votes, and if any candidate makes the quota, he is immediately elected (something only Walter J. Sullivan can do). His surplus votes go to whoever the voter marked number two. Candidates on the bottom of the totals are eliminated, and the women keep...
On other cards, Carter got less charity. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, no fans of the President, rushed to judgment: "Jimmy Carter, the miracle worker of 1976 is now marked by critics as the political incompetent of 1977 " The New York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a...
A Night at the Opera. In 1934 Chico Marx, an inveterate bridge player, sat down at the table with one of the sharpest cards ever to hit Hollywood: Irving Thalberg, the boy wonder producer, whose career inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel "The Last Tycoon." Thalberg's gambling...
Rocky. This film marked the emergence of Sylvester Stallone as a bona fide celebrity in the movie industry, and watching his Rocky Balboa give his best shot at the heavyweight crown makes you wonder if it may also mark his equally sudden return to bona fide oblivion. Stallone is perfectly...
Now as I've said, I received an "A" on the hourly--I did really well on the first two sections and then coasted home--but that was two-and-a-half weeks ago. Since then I've really been sloughing off, and unless I show some marked improvement in...