Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
...Communists among its members. And, as France's voters prepared to cast their ballots in last Sunday's first round, it was all but certain that the parties of the left would outpoll those in the center-right coalition and possibly capture an outright majority of the popular vote...
...type sweets have little chance of making it in the nougat-and-caramel world. Parents buy their kids the bars they used to eat as children, and that's why Milky Way, Snickers, Nestles' Crunch, Mounds, Almond Joy and the Hershey Bar are still the kingpins. The ten most popular candy bars in the United States are the same today as they were 25 years ago, although price and size have gone up and down, respectively...
...problem is that Broadway scarcely ever engenders a totally new musical these days. It rehashes old ones or injects old plays with songs and dances. The most popular recent marketing device is to turn originally all-white musicals into all-black musicals. In the current instance the show is based on Kismet, and the locale has been changed from Baghdad to Africa, though the basic beat and mood of the musical are Caribbean. That is not too surprising, since Director-Choreogra-pher-Costumer Geoffrey Holder was born in Trinidad...
...across his tongue and start a bonfire of hilarity coursing through the house. He walks as if his legs were malingering splints. The theater as a metaphor for murder is the ironic undertheme of the play. It stands out in bold relief on Wood's face. Well, in popular U.S. mythology, are not the playwrights the victims and the critics the assassins? If you care to assassinate yourself with laughter, try Deathtrap...