Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results of a survey conducted in July for H&R Block, a company which prepares income tax returns, indicates that the plan to allow parents to deduct a portion of college tuition costs from their federal income tax is not as popular as President Carter's plan to increase the number of middle-income families eligible for student grants and loans...
Several Government students commented yesterday that Orren was one of the most popular young professors in the department...
...Game. Facing death with a certain caustic equanimity has become a popular stage theme in the past couple of seasons. In this play, a cantankerous old man and an assertive old lady play bracing games of gin rummy even though the cards of life are stacked against them...
...itself. Doors opening by 'magic' if you touch but one of them. Other doors swinging food in, as the mantle quietly slips wine bottles up ... He had a Connecticut Yankee's engineering mind inside a Southern gentleman's frock coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist. But that is what saves the image. He is the idealist as practical man-one who can make a plow or play a fiddle, though he was not 'practical' in the tawdry and capitalist sense: He had the good taste...
...dispiriting film, the saddest moments belong to Dudley Moore, who plays a frustrated sex fiend whom Hawn keeps coming across. He is desperate for laughs, and Higgins, is frantic to provide them, but to no-or at least embarrassing avail. Higgins was the author of the popular Silver Streak; if you didn't realize it then, you will surely now understand how great was his debt to resourceful Richard Pryor for saving that similarly noisy and tasteless venture. Higgins should not make a move without...