Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read it to nose into the lives of D. C. superstars. It's not the talk of Joe Califano and his rooster pepper sausage, or the Rafshooning of America, or the latest a' deux in that little Georgetown cafe that makes the Washington Star's Ear so popular. It's the style, the "jolly pariah" attitude as Ear's creator Diana McLellan describes herself, the fast-paced staccato prose and irreverent wit that draws Ear's following...
...does a British-born Washingtonian become a popular gossip columnist syndicated in about 30 papers across the country? She scrounged a job in the Washington Star's classified ad department and rose through the ranks. Wait. We hear she was fired from that spot...
...when Fordham offered him the head coaching position, Penders crossed the pearly gates of the 82-acre Rose Hill campus without a backward glance. Most coaches might have felt some trepidation taking the post: Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin, who played for Fordham, coached with Phelps, and was popular with the alumni, considered the prospects at Fordham so bleak that he refused to even apply...
...expect you to watch most popular shows, but you do not represent most of America," Carswell--who won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing while at Harvard--added...
...considerably more serious in the performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite their lack of numbers, covered the woodwinds during much...