Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CODDLE YOURSELF. Frostbite, associated in the popular mind with polar explorers and Everest ascenders, is a real and insidious danger whenever it is freezing outside. Just ten minutes of exposure can injure ears, cheeks, tips of noses and ungloved fingers. Smoking increases the risk, since nicotine constricts blood vessels, hastening the cooling process. Nor should one drink alcohol before venturing outside. Booze opens up the blood vessels and accelerates heat loss from the body...
Blessing in Disguise. Whatever the reason, and however severe the blow to Mrs. Gandhi, Ram's departure does not necessarily spell her downfall. The Congress Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME...
...their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team. Rather they embodied all that might have been had Montcalm, not Wolfe, carried that September...
...being filmed in Helsinki. Cast as a brainy KGB agent who goes to the U.S. on a mission, Charles Bronson is denounced by Izvestia as "the stereotype immutable hero of thriller-type movies." Is Bronson crushed? Nyet. "They must like that," he says. "I understand I'm very popular in Russia...
Among many blacks, Roots has kindled an intense desire to search out their genealogies. Actually, American blacks' interest in their African heritage began years ago; among the most vivid manifestations were the dashikis and African names that became popular in the 1960s. Hence Roots and the reaction to it are in a sense as much effect as cause...