Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasing by about 6% annually. Lopez Portillo has also promoted a certain degree of political liberalization, although his Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) continues to dominate Mexican politics as it has for the past 50 years. To no one's surprise, the P.R.I, swept up some 70% of the popular vote in this month's congressional elections...
...Popular in the U.A.W. as a man whom workers can grab by the lapels "for a beer and bull shit," as a union staffer puts it, Fraser is also welcomed by company negotiators at the bargaining table...
...monodramas she wrote and staged herself. Her self-deprecating humor and satirical wit found an outlet in light verse and anecdotal magazine pieces, plays and books, the best known of which was her 1942 travelogue, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written with Emily Kimbrough. She was a popular guest on radio, television and the lecture circuit, thanks largely to her flair for the bon mot. Sample: "A woman's virtue is man's greatest invention...
...evolution of British gardening from Ham House, the oldest of those restorations, to Claremont, the youngest, is a story of art conquering artifice. Ham House, completed around 1675, is one of those formal, highly decorative gardens popular during the 17th century. Such landscapes were influenced by the fussy Dutch and autocratic French traditions, which attempted to organize nature into geometric perfection. The Ham House gardens are meticulously divided into parterres, groves and banks by avenues...
...Punk seems very self-indulgent to me, at least in this country. I think it draws a lot of upper-middle class audience....Folk music is musically valid because it relates the reality of experience as opposed to analytical considerations; it encompasses humanity in a way tht no popular music does...