Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every inflection, perhaps. McCue hoped to play upon Behan's theme of dramatic distance, to make the audience sharply conscious of the fact that they are in a theater viewing a performance. Unfortunately, his characterization only reflects the dull spontaneity of Bundy's directional style. McCue, as always, takes stronghold of the audience's interest, but he fails to excite...
While San Francisco led the rest of America in reviving an appreciation of poetry in the Fifties, Austin -- yes, the one in Texas -- has become, in the beginning of the Eighties, a stronghold for small press activity and the writing and performance of poetry. Mary MacArthur, Assistant Director for the National Endowment's Literature Program, has called Austin "the literary capital of the Southwest...
...heavy turnout is expected to aid President Carter's bid for reelection, because Democratic registration in the state is nearly three times greater than Republican. But observers in the city said yesterday that even the Democratic stronghold of Cambridge is not sewn up for the president...
...South, Reagan is ahead, 46% to 43%, and thus threatens to crack Carter's 1976 electoral stronghold in his home region. The Governor, who has long been popular in some sections of the South, is being helped by the votes of white Protestants (51% to 39%), who favor him mainly because of his well-known conservative views and partly because of his alliance with television-era fundamentalist preachers...
...such a race. The Republican incumbent, Robert Dornan, 47, is a former B-movie actor and Emmy-winning TV talk show host. His challenger is Democrat Carey Peck, 31, son of Gregory Peck and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and Senate aide. The set: a onetime Republican stronghold that includes the Los Angeles suburbs of Santa Monica, Venice and Marina del Rey. Voters run the gamut from Ronald Reagan to Jane Fonda. Allows a Republican official: "The district is eccentric...