Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, D.C., and Mart Crowley, the author, was a student of mine. He had been working on the play and he brought it to me. I had to direct it to get him out of my apartment." Originally produced in an Off-Off-Broadway workshop, the play proved unexpectedly popular. "I never thought it would be a hit," said Moore. "Who thought anyone would be interested in a play about nine fags at a birthday party...
...barrier between Republicans and black leaders is the party's emphasis on reduced Government spending, balanced budgets and laissez-faire economics, quite the opposite of the programs sought by black leaders. Urban League Director Vernon Jordan last week blasted Carter's proposed tax cut of $25 billion (popular with Republicans), claiming it was large enough to threaten "vitally needed urban and social welfare programs." Noting an Urban League study that puts black unemployment at 13.2% (v. 6.3% for whites), Jordan called for increases in job-training funds and public service employment, proposals that most Republicans greet with...
...Transamerica's biggest shareholders, with a total of 505,000 shares, worth about $7 million. But when Pleskow suddenly quit, Krim and Benjamin decided to follow. Last week others joined the exodus, among them Senior Vice President for Production Mike Medavoy, 37, who is considered tops at measuring popular tastes and making money-spinning deals...
...uncle and the oldest member of the Carter family; of gall bladder disease; in Americus, Ga. The mayor of Plains from 1924 to 1952, "Uncle Buddy" also ran a general store and for the past few years worked in his son's antiques store, where he was a popular raconteur...
Partners are touching each other again, and dancing to music that is meant to have them do just that, such as the marvelously variable hustle. Extraordinarily, the oldfashioned, dress-up tea dance has returned from oblivion to become a popular mixer all over the country-a departure, to say the least, from the meat-market atmosphere of the singles bars. The disco scene has grown generally less barbarous, and is now in retreat from the narcissistic solo gyrations that became fashionable in the early '60s. The most phenomenal pop-song hit of the season? That saccharine hymn...