Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performer can stay at the peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions...
...campuses, the students framed their demands so they would appeal to workers and peasants as well as to the intelligentsia. In addition to their traditional demands for freedom of assembly and the press and greater "democracy," this time they pushed for a new campaign against government corruption -- an increasingly popular issue among the masses -- and for China's leaders to make public their personal financial holdings. "Many of these students took part in the 1986-87 protests," said a graduate of the University of Politics and Law who is now a government official. "They have learned their lessons, and they...
Taking up the narrative with his return to the U.S., Kennan allows his wit to twinkle. California reminds him "of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals; one meets many -- not all -- of one's friends . . . and the newcomer is slightly disconcerted to realize that now -- the devil having been banished and virtue being triumphant -- nothing terribly interesting can ever happen again...
...handy at a time when international pharmaceutical giants are scrambling to join forces. Hoffmann-La Roche, whose strong suit is prescription products, still smarts from its failure last year to acquire New York City-based Sterling Drug, the maker of Bayer aspirin, Phillips milk of magnesia and other popular over-the-counter brands. Sterling spurned the Hoffmann-La Roche offer and sold out to Eastman Kodak instead. "We wanted primarily to establish ourselves in the American over-the-counter market," recalls Hoffmann-La Roche Chairman Fritz Gerber, 60, whose company gets a third of its sales from U.S. operations based...
...most cases the existing homes bear no resemblance to the sugarplums dancing in many Hollywood heads. Many of the mansions under construction, ornate stone boxes known among architects as "birthday cakes," average roughly 10,000 sq. ft.; the typical American home is 2,000 sq. ft. Among the popular features are recording studios, tanning parlors, servants' quarters, double kitchens (one for catering) and motorized chandeliers. Outside, there are polo fields, putting greens, petting zoos, heliports, waterfalls and, in the case of one father of young children, a miniature railroad circling the house...