Word: successful
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...conservatives convened under the banner of the American Independent Party, a coalition of right-wing forces that claims roughly 1 million followers and has put forward national candidates since 1968. In that year Alabama's George Wallace led the A.I.P. to its greatest electoral success, garnering an impressive 9.9 million votes-nearly 14% of the total cast. But Wallace dropped out of the 1972 race after his near-fatal wounding in Laurel, Md., and was not involved with the organization this year. Ronald Reagan, a leading horseman of the right, was reluctant to leave the Republican Party after...
...gonna last forever. Right now everybody's talking about the Philly sound. Six months from now, it could be the Cleveland sound." As far as the people in Philly are concerned, however, the Trammps' identification with disco is complete. In addition to their current success as a live act, they were one of the lucky groups earlier on to have their records picked up by discotheques. "When they started the disco thing, we were just sitting there waiting for it," says Harris. And they knew what to do when it was dropped in their laps...
Around him stood the dwindling fraternity of Republican people who own, manage, invest, invent and risk. They each have their short stories of work, struggle and success. They also have a single-minded belief in American opportunity that they claim most people can seize if they will...
...plot that defies both good sense and synopsis. At no point is Gaetano's life or manhood entirely safe, and in battling to preserve both, he stumbles across deranged characters like Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno), a busted-down Puerto Rican entertainer with visions of Broadway glory. So far, success has kept well ahead of her. Googie's problem, mainly, is her accent, which is thick enough to weigh on a scale. In her lust for fame and fortune, Googie mistakes Gaetano for a big producer cruising the Ritz to have a little fun. She decides to reform...
...earned extra money by drawing his own comic books and selling them to school chums for a nickel. At 19, he hoped to become a fashion illustrator. But a chance meeting with a CBS casting director led to bit parts on various shows, and at age 23 he achieved success in the hit play A Taste of Honey. But his career unexpectedly stalled during the racially turbulent 1960s. "I was too black for white producers and too light-skinned for blacks." Williams even tried using a sun lamp to make his black more beautiful, but only succeeded in burning...