Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stacy, a popular, outgoing young woman who worked as a secretary for a shoe firm in the Empire State Building, was Son of Sam's sixth murder victim. Robert, a polite, conservatively dressed fellow who had just applied for a construction job with Con Ed, was the seventh person to survive bullet wounds in the killer's yearlong series of attacks...
...young man struggling to support his family while trying to fulfill his ambitions, the opposition from the Establishment in his field, the early heartbreaks, the ultimate triumph-all this is the familiar stuff of a hundred celluloid dreams that have been sold to us as the real goods on popular contemporary heroes...
...courses were deleted as being too dry and dusty. But the appeal of the arcanum shows signs of reviving Latin, along with the current educational drift back to basics. New courses in mythology and literature in translation have attracted students too. One innovative, popular program-used in ghetto schools to reinforce basic English grammar-even teaches conversational Latin by audiovisual methods. Besides, says Minter, "the classics still have a snob appeal-which we try to play to the hilt...
...enough imaginative gags and such a pleasantly adoles cent spirit about the film as to warrant looking in on it some hot summer's night. It is to be hoped, though, that Feldman - and everybody else - will follow Woody Allen's lead, give up parodies of popular cultural forms and turn their attention, in the manner of Annie Hall, to life itself...
Walter Lord has told his readers what it was like to go down with the Titanic (A Night to Remember), to fight at the Alamo (A Time to Stand) and to wake to the World War II overture one Honolulu morning in 1941 (Day of Infamy). As a popular chronicler of historic days and nights, the bestselling author relies heavily on eyewitness accounts from participants and survivors. Incredible Victory, his narrative of the Battle of Midway, crackled with aging voices from both sides. For Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons, the author traveled 40,000 miles (including a rugged three...