Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest disappointment by far, however, is that the psychology, sociology and black studies sections are full of pop books and near-to-devoid of scholarly work. The Coop, for example, is the one bookstore in the Square that stocks a lot of copies of Dianetics...
...that minor eruption paled next to the outburst of violence in Uzbekistan, the fourth largest republic, located in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. The worst outbreak of ethnic mayhem in the modern Soviet era began on the night of June 3, in the city of Fergana (pop. 190,000), 150 miles southeast of Tashkent, as bands of native Uzbeks staged a series of brutal attacks on minority Meskhetian Turks, who were deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin. Most of the 190,000 displaced Meskhetians settled in Uzbekistan, a region that did not always welcome their presence...
...Vincent Sullivan, editor of Detective Comics, had a terrific idea. So what if it was someone else's? The year before, a muscle-bound man from Krypton had landed in the pages of rival Action Comics and become an instant icon of pop culture. Sullivan may not have owned Superman, but he could clone it. He called in cartoonist Bob Kane, then 18, and asked for a similar "super-duper" character. Kane went home, tossed the movies The Mark of Zorro and The Bat Whispers into an imaginary blender with Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine, and dreamed up Batman...
...also in France and England, have wrested for themselves the full title of chef. To be sure, female cooks in restaurants have a long and honored history. They were the keepers of the flame who always produced traditional dishes without deviation, both in American mom-and-pop eateries and especially in France, where the cuisine de femme (woman's cooking) was celebrated by Escoffier...
...warble to the crowds at her husband's election rallies. Now former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos is hoping to reach a less captive audience in the U.S. with the release this week of a cassette of twelve "songs of love and friendship" that she recorded with Philippine pop singer Imelda Papin. Titled Imelda Papin Featuring Imelda Romualdez Marcos, the cassette will be produced in a limited edition of 5,000, and includes five solos by Mrs. Marcos. Papin says the songs, including Feelings and I Just Called to Say I Love You, are all beloved tunes of the ailing...