Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweden Inc.). In fact, Sweden's press long has proclaimed Carl Gustaf the "country's No. 1 p.r. man." The new Queen is almost sure to earn a similar encomium. She is witty and conversant in six languages (including recently acquired Swedish). She has become very popular since her engagement to Carl Gustaf last March, after a courtship that began at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, where she was chief hostess for top VIPS−one of whom was the young Swedish crown prince...
...budget masterpieces, Director Ray depicts Indian life with poignant realism. His famous trilogy, Song of the Road, The Unvanquished, and The World of Apu, has been applauded at film festivals all over the world, as has his more recent Distant Thunder. But Ray's movies are not popular in India. His new release, Jana Aranya, opened unheralded this spring in three obscure Calcutta movie houses...
...spend 20% of their leisure money on movies. Nearly 200 films are now being produced annually. Locally made skin flicks, called bomba, have been dampened by martial law sensibilities, so producers are now filming what they call "bold" movies, which are only slightly less explicit. The Philippines' most popular actor-director-producers are Joseph Estrada, who in real life is mayor of San Juan, and Fernando Poe Jr. Both are masters of swashbuckling adventures. Poe has just been signed to play the guerrilla hero Ferdinand Marcos−who was one in World War II and is now the country...
...their hats on, and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely ... The greater portion of this assemblage . . . had no particular business there, that anybody knew of. A few were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that President [John Tyler], who was far from popular, had not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his private benefit...
...over the country's growing reputation as an Alpine penny pincher, the government recently won parliamentary support for a modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise...