Word: popular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WAIT. I am having second thoughts. Perhaps Mobuto is not that bad after all. He claims to be very popular among his own people. In 1984, after making failure to vote punishable by law, his party received 99.16 percent of the vote in general elections. Of course, no one else was listed on the ballot, but that is still an impressive outcome...
...represents a great jagged gash in the fabric of American history, an ugly tear in a tapestry that people once believed had been woven out of high ideals and simple decency. A few years ago, when it became obvious that it was time to repair that rent, our popular culture took on something of the air of a vast quilting bee, with writers, filmmakers and TV producers bending over their restorative needlework...
Irving Berlin knew what made his music so timelessly popular. "A good song," he once said, "embodies the feelings of the mob, and a songwriter is not much more than a mirror which reflects those feelings. I write a song to please the public -- and if the public doesn't like it in New Haven, I change...
...WHITE SEASON. A polite white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with a jolt of moral outrage...
...wrote to celebrate the land that he loved, and his songs, from White Christmas to There's No Business Like Show Business, touched popular chords through a long history...