Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...projects that have overcome this feeling is Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, which is now being shot with Fierstein re- creating his Broadway role. But Torch Song is about a drag queen and therefore outside the range of ordinary experience, as were the vastly popular movie and musical versions of La Cage aux Folles...
...Eddie's always had the power," says his friend Robert Townsend, "but now he's flexing his muscles more." And why not? Murphy, 27, may be the most popular movie comedian since Charlie Chaplin. Beverly Hills Cop ranks No. 9 among all-time box-office champs; Cop II was last summer's monster hit; Raw, released at Christmas, was the top-grossing concert film ever. Now Murphy has upended his strutting, misogynist image to play an innocent prince pursuing an independent woman. In Coming to America, Eddie is ready for love...
...noon Sunday the crowd may have had its fill of calamari, for by far the most popular booth was Smokin' Jim's, where ribs and chicken were barbecuing in open smoke pits, then to be brushed with a brassy sweet sauce. "I wait for this fair every year because I know Jim will be here," said a local housewife who would not give her name. "I can't give it because I sneaked in the side gate. I didn't want to pay an admission fee because all I want are the ribs. I'm buying extra slabs to freeze...
...skirmishes and shortages are already evident across the West. In the San Francisco area, once lush gardens are withering under strict water limits. Lake Tahoe has retreated 5 ft. down its banks, leaving popular beaches high and dry, while parched Reno threatens to pump the lake still lower. In Arizona water scouts from the booming cities are roaming the landscape with checkbooks ready, buying farmland 90 miles distant just to get the groundwater rights. The vast Ogallala Aquifer, an underground lake that stretches from South Dakota to Texas, is being overdrawn by wells at a rate...
...line. He has proven that among Democratic candidates, virtually all Black voters prefer him. As it stands now, he regularly can be counted on to attract virtually all of the Black vote in the Democratic primaries, and to garner about 30 percent, at the most, of the total popular vote during the quest for the nomination...