Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this case we have a woman (Marabel Morgan) telling other women how to be happy with a housewife's career, while she is out making a cool $1.5 million plus on the lecture circuit as a writer of popular literature...
...proposals have been made by Congress to reform it. Last week, for the first time in this century, a President put the weight of his office behind the notion that it should be abolished altogether. Jimmy Carter proposed that the arcane and archaic Electoral College be replaced with direct, popular-vote presidential elections. He called the change "an issue of overriding Government significance...
That oddity is not the main problem with the Electoral College. The real and present danger is that a candidate could lose the nationwide popular vote and yet still end up in the White House. Precisely that has happened three times before-John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888. Indeed, in 22 of the nation's 48 presidential elections, the winner has had an uncomfortably close call. The latest, of course, was Carter, who had a 1.7 million vote plurality, but would have lost in the Electoral College if only...
...popular Arabic movies exemplify the duality of the Western inheritance. On the one hand, they ogle European fashions, hairstyles, sports cars, ad nauseum. But they also liberate the roles of women; the heroines can be as impulsive, seductive and treacherous as their Hollywood counterparts...
Died. Antonino Rocca, 49, flamboyant wrestler who claimed that he knew "the secret of life" (good blood circulation) and would live to be 150; of a urinary tract infection; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, Rocca grew up in Argentina and became one of its most popular wrestlers. He moved to the U.S. in 1949, delighting millions of fans around the ring and on TV with his barefoot dropkick, in which he leaped into the air, pummeling his opponent with both feet...