Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main collection, called Donna Karan New York, is in demand among an elite crowd that seldom blinks at a $1,100 price tag for a cashmere blazer or $510 for a high-neck silk blouse. But it is Karan's more congenially priced DKNY wardrobe that has struck a popular chord. Among its current best sellers: plaid wool jackets ($395), denim jeans ($85) and merino-wool cardigans...
...store was established by three mothers who were concerned that their children were watching too much TV. Decorated like an old rural library, the cozy shop draws customers with classics like Pat the Bunny, a section for teens and toys for prereaders. Special events have included an appearance by popular kiddie author Jack Prelutsky, who read his poem Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast to an SRO crowd. "I love it here," says shopper Aida Littauer. "I tell them what I want, and they pick out the books...
Panah Huseynov, 32, a member of the directorate of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, is seated at a desk in the former schoolhouse that serves as the group's new headquarters. He is listening to an Azerbaijani refugee from Armenia describe how he and his family were expelled from their home last November. "I was thrown from my house, beaten," the man says. "I lived off weeds, anything I could find." As Huseynov shakes his head in anger, the refugee continued, "They want to cut us up like sheep. But we'll burn them first...
...nationalist inroads are most pronounced in predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan. The Popular Front, formed by a group of intellectuals less than a year ago, was initially considered a fringe group by the local Communist leadership. But then the front began to stage stunning demonstrations of grass-roots support, including a rally in the capital of Baku that drew some 300,000 protesters and a crippling rail blockade of neighboring Armenia. Finally Azerbaijan's Communist leaders officially recognized the nationalist political organization, and acceded to virtually its entire agenda. In a special session of the republic's supreme soviet three weeks...
...many cases, the gold mines are located in remote, desolate regions. But some impinge on popular campsites, and one, ominous as a shark with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that...