Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...popular movie Heathers features a cow-tipping scene in which two drunken jocks push over a heifer to prove their masculinity. In her recent book "Saturday Night in America," Susan Olean writes that "On Saturday night, there [is]...the highest number of reported incidents of cow toppling in rural Pennsylvania." This claim was prominently featured in a New York Times Magazine excerpt of the book...
...moment, Chamorro has buffers. Nicaraguans can blame political turmoil on Sandinista subterfuge and hyperinflation on the previous regime and, perhaps, on Chamorro's son-in-law Antonio Lacayo, who runs the government. But Aquino and Bhutto have spent much of their popular support. Unable to end Pakistan's ethnic strife, Bhutto has fallen, and her match-made husband Asif Zardari has been accused of corruption. With each threat of a coup, the Philippine economy falters, and Aquino's grip grows shakier...
...inability to resolve crises has been the downfall of male leaders. The popular backlash against their widows and daughters may prove equally cruel. What greater faithlessness can there be than the mother of the nation failing her people? Having come to power as emblems of national emotions, women leaders like Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro remain at the mercy of those emotions. Their original strength lay in their symbolism, but without substance, their legacies are bound to vanish...
...into politics in 1987 and learned her new craft chiefly by championing environmental issues, which have become a pivot for political rebellion, providing an entree into politics for a surprising number of East bloc women. In the spring of 1988 she became one of the founders of the rebellious Popular Front of Estonia, and her expertise in using the mass media helped propel the movement into a formidable force that convinced Estonians they could break with Moscow...
...children. One Dallas-based businesswoman says she came out just a year ago, at age 65, after decades of unhappy marriage and raising four sons. In all, an estimated 1.5 million U.S. lesbians are mothers. Most bore their children while married, though adoption and artificial insemination are becoming increasingly popular among lesbian couples. Maria Cristina Vlassidis, 31, a Chilean-born law school graduate in Manhattan, has a son Erick, 8, from her former marriage, whom she is now raising with her lover, Marie Tatro, 29, a law student. Both women attend parent-teacher conferences; both support the child financially; they...