Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other books by women authors such as "Mommie Dearest," stories of actress Joan Crawford by her daughter Christina Crawford, and "Moments of Being," unpublished autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolfe, seem to be popular with college-age readers, Peter Barkley, a short-order buyer at Words Worth, said last week...
Both the Coop and the Harvard Book Store placed "My Mother, Myself," a book by Nancy Friday, as one of their most popular selections...
...course, some tax havens remain. Apartment houses and the renovation of historical buildings are the most popular, largely because Congress took no steps to block nonrecourse financing of them. Thus a shelter partnership might raise $1 million from its members and $4 million in nonrecourse loans to convert a rundown building into federally subsidized apartments at a total cost of $5 million. Though the property could be assumed to have a useful life of 30 years, the investors may deduct the mostly borrowed cost over five years, providing them with $1 million a year in write-offs that they...
...heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used in the Midwest and West...
These Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are delightful little bonbons, really. They appeal to the Anglophile in all of us. Like the imported BBC television shows so popular today, they prey on the transatlantic inferiority complex that leaves most Americans rolling their eyes at anyone who flashes a British accent. The Loeb production unashamedly squeezes every drop out of this tendency, even playing "God Save the Queen" before the overture...