Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition, known as the "turkey meet" because it used to occur around Thanksgiving, is perhaps the most popular of the 120 formal contests held every year in the U.S. The meet started in 1969 when parachuting was just beginning to take hold in this country, and it has managed to maintain a special appeal while jumping has become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming...
...most popular item, which Rockefeller says has drawn 1,000 orders, is one of the least expensive: a $75 reproduction in unglazed clay of a Haniwa head, modeled in Japan sometime in the 5th to 7th centuries. Other popular sellers: $750 copies of a pair of andirons designed for Rockefeller by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in 1939; a $1,250 gold-plated bronze reproduction of a voluptuous female torso from a bronze cast sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. A slow mover is the $7,500 copy of the Rodin nude. Rockefeller, who has been collecting since the 1930s, invested...
...terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge audience but a tough one. Explains Network Senior Vice...
...believe this is the prudent and correct thing to do at this time. This will not be popular, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience, but my first responsibility is the health of the undergraduates," Fox said yesterday...
...hour out of Dar, the commissary had already depleted its stock of warm beer and soft drinks. No one seemed to mind; passengers had brought their own cases of drinks, huge bundles of bananas, cashews, bread and other staples and, inevitably, transistor radios blaring the immensely popular Zaïre Rock, a rhythmic cacophony of drums and electric guitars...