Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Refugees who have managed to flee to Thailand -often after days and weeks of walking through thick forests and jungles along the border-describe the revolution as a chilling form of mindless terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers to explain the purpose and ideology of the revolution. Instead, refugees told TIME Correspondents William McWhirter and David Aikman there has been a grim, silent round of purges, mass evacuations, forced labor and willful...
They would have us believe that they have a serious cautionary interest in rape, its causes and consequences, but whenever there is a choice between the sober and the merely slick they opt for the easy and popular thing. To play the victim they have chosen that chic curiosity, Margaux Hemingway. With her flat voice and her tuned-out manner there is no hope of her playing anything like a typical American woman-or victim. She can only be what she is, a high-fashion model, a glamorous exotic. But that's all right. Her work gives...
There she is, Papa's granddaughter, a rifle tucked coolly, familiarly against her shoulder, blasting away expertly, there by calling up the memories of machismo associated in the popular mind with the Hemingway name...
...Weekend Update," Chase's mock news broadcast is the show's most popular skit. "It's the last thing we do," Franken said. "We throw it together around two in the afternoon on Saturday and add jokes throughout the day, right up to air time." Much of "Update" is direct satire of occurences of the previous week. On one newscast, Chase reported...
Like Cavett, most of the guest hosts are popular figures. Candice Bergen, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin and Anthony Perkins have appeared, and Raquel Welch is scheduled for next Saturday. Tomorrow night, Ron Nessen, presidential press secretary, will make his show business debut...