Word: unpopularity
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...advance issues of the Sunday Globe appeared with the wrong edition of the syndicated Parade magazine supplement; instead of the intended cover story about TV's Walter Cronkite, readers of these were treated to a feature on New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, who may be the most unpopular personality in Red Sox-mad Boston since King George...
...Chicago. Byrne's malfunctioning machine, which the late Mayor Richard Daley had built into the last of the great urban juggernauts, even lost key local offices. Kennedy was beaten not only in black, Jewish and labor districts but also in Irish Catholic areas. Both Byrne and Kennedy proved unpopular, prompting Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss to gibe: "The mayor and Senator are having trouble walking around together. Each is a little heavy for the other to carry...
Meanwhile, some American officials were privately relieved that the help had been spurned, even though they worry that Pakistan may become the Soviets' next target of opportunity. Their reasoning: the U.S. had been spared an alliance with a repressive, unpopular military dictator whose regime has only a modest chance of survival. Last week there were reports-vehemently denied by the Islamabad government-that some army officers had launched an attempted coup against Zia and failed...
Anyone who buys this record on the basis of Lydia Lunch's previous reputation may be terminally stunned: far from selling out, Lunch has decided to fuse several rather unpopular styles into one lumpy, unmanageable mass. Just how this will sit with the punky-elite remains to be seen, but the fact remains that this disc reveals levels of talent that even the most perceptive of critics would never have thought Lunch possessed. She fits together such divergent elements as no wave, big band torch singing, Nicoesque arch-gothic vignettes, and mid-'60s bubble gum rock as if they were...
...Stevens of Alaska and House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona brought groups of their followers to meetings with Miller to trade budget-cutting ideas. The Republicans at first were extremely suspicious. Some feared that the President was trying to get them to take the risk of voting for unpopular spending reductions that Democrats would not support. "Who wants to be the fellow who votes against the veterans or cancer research?" asked Stevens. Nonetheless, the Republicans agreed to look over whatever the Democrats came up with...