Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true Laotian style, last week's coup by the Communist Pathet Lao was a well-mannered affair, allowing for some touches of face-saving grace. It began with a series of "popular" demonstrations, some of them so tamely orchestrated that bored crowds began to wander away before the big finale. Then it was announced that a two-day Congress of 265 People's delegates had taken place in Vientiane, although no one in the capital had seen or heard of it. At each event, figurehead King Savang Vatthana, 68, and his 18-month-old coalition were thanked...
...lives, the 3 million Laotians remain among the world's most apolitical people. The Pathet Lao is neither as ruthless as Cambodia's Khmer Rouge nor as disciplined as the Vietnamese. In gradually seizing control of the country since mid-April, the Communists have managed to stay popular with their subjects by emphasizing such mass themes as anticorruption and self-rule. They have made skillful propaganda use of traditional Laotian music, to the point that some foreign diplomats in Vientiane call it "the song-and-dance revolution." Although Vientiane's once notorious opium dens have been padlocked...
Brown argues against the popular conception of Cunningham's dance as having no meaning, a subject none of the other writers touch. Acknowledging that Cunningham leaves few clues about what he's doing, she nonetheless insists that "his own dancing is suffused with mystery, poetry and madness--expressive of root emotions, generous yet often frightening in their nakedness." She points to Cunningham's use of the dancer's internal sense of rhythm, explaining that his practice of rehearsing a piece by timing it over and over with a stopwatch is far from mechanical, as is often charged...
Jones, who teaches "Psychology of Humor," "Black Lives," and the popular spring course, "Sport, Play and Society," is in the process of putting the final touches on an extensive sociological biography on Herron, a 5'5" dynamo running back who captured the fancy of New England Patriot football fans with a record-setting performance in 1974. 'Mini-Mac' eclipsed the all-time N.F.L. total offense record set by Gale Sayers with 2444 yards last year...
...rising bourgeoisie wanted art and culture in their homes and their lives, and the major patrons of sculpture shifted from governments to businessmen. The demand was there, the technology was available to reproduce these pieces in large numbers and the artists cashed in. This social process made woodcuts popular in the 16th century, and would do the same for photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At first glance, this array of copies cannot compare with the unique, original and personal objects which have always been treasured...