Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform-minded leaders of the 1960s vowed to protect senior citizens from the shameful destitution that had terrorized earlier generations. At the time that Lyndon Johnson launched his immense rescue mission, the Great Society, more than a quarter of all old people lived below the poverty line. In the popular imagination, being old usually meant a frail and lonely dependency, in which old women lived on cat food in spartan apartments and relied on busy children or social workers for a ride to the doctor...
...final number of delegates was not available last night, but the latest unofficial tally of the popular vote, with 99 percent of the precincts reporting, shows the following...
Levine said most teaching fellows liked the idea of an award "with the trepidation that it be done carefully." He added, "Some teaching fellows are less substantive and more popular, and I hope students can tell the difference...
Tuning was keyed in with uncanny accuracy by the brilliant Brian Williams as he soared through the upper reaches of his falsetto on "Get Ready, Get Set." The ever-popular Fiona Anderson backed him on that song, and later sang one of her own, "No Regrets." As always, her technical prowess was dazzling. Her delivery, though, leaned more on gospel than on jazz, and therefore seemed a bit out of place in this venue...
...popular reputation, Jean-Honore Fragonard is often dismissed as a purveyor of teasingly erotic marzipan: images of rose-cheeked, button-eyed demimondaines in leafy bowers, often dallying with wan, wigged swains. The extraordinary exhibition of Fragonard's works that opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and that can be seen there until May 8, amply demonstrates the limiting inaccuracy of that view. In reality, Fragonard was probably the most versatile of the great masters of 18th century French...