Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falstaffian weight. A series of exercise machines -- a rowing machine, cross-country machine, stationary bicycle -- sit broken or largely unused in his attic. Bork has taken up poker in a floating game that regularly includes Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Education Secretary William Bennett and others. Bork is a popular addition: he is so unknowledgeable about the game that he keeps a list of winning hands beside his chair. "I never played poker before," says he, "and I think I'm paying...
...mythic ancestors and marked by legendary events. Previous governments have simply ignored these traditional claims, arguing that the nomadic Aborigines could not have a sense of landownership. Moreover, Australian businesses are not likely to give up their stakes in tribal land rich in precious metals. There is also little popular support for a compact. One poll found that 52% of white Australians consider it a "waste of time and money." Said John Howard, leader of the opposition Liberal Party: "There is no way the Australian people will ever accept that in some way we are two nations within...
...Reagan Administration, which has reduced the Federal Government's share of all educational outlays, is getting set to propose an increase. But the G.O.P. adds a qualification stressed early by Vice President George Bush: more dollars do not necessarily mean better schools. Indeed, Bennett insists that one source of popular dismay is precisely the belief that the public is not getting its money's worth out of the cash already being showered on schools -- a record $308 billion this year in federal, state, local and private spending. To improve teaching, G.O.P. candidates favor a free-market approach: tuition tax credits...
...dioramas, stick-outs and wraparound environments of Red Grooms have been jiggling and creaking their way to glory on the fourth floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum through the summer, and there are still queues round the block. Few American artists are more genuinely popular than this 50-year-old from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch...
...Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will help lead to a popular uprising against Gaddafi. But though the Libyan leader acknowledged in a speech two weeks ago that defections from his army have become a major problem, he is not about to give up his country's claims on the Aozou Strip. Indeed, learning from their mistakes, Libyan forces in recent weeks have adopted...