Sentence examples for crest of popularity from inspiring English sources

NO wine rode a bigger crest of popularity in the 1990's than merlot.

A Troubled Third Term Mr. Koch, riding a huge crest of popularity, was elected in 1985 to a third term, with an amazing 78 percent of the vote.

As one of the early celebrity chefs of the 1980's, Mr. Clark rode a crest of popularity as restaurant-going rose to become a great social pastime in New York City.

Glasses with red and green lenses are provided (a second disc has the film and extras in two dimensions), and Mr. Rodriguez explains many of the effects in, Dave Kehr wrote in The Times, an "enjoyable, noisy romp that trots out all the gimmicks that have made the format fun since its first brief crest of popularity in the early 1950's".

The premise is rooted in pathos: Elvis Presley, no longer at the crest of popularity, inveighing against the Beatles in particular and the Age of Aquarius over all, wants to volunteer for the war on drugs and wants Nixon to swear him in as a federal agent.

Buscemi deserves the Emmy, but Fallon, riding a crest of popularity since taking over "The Tonight Show," probably will prevail, even though he won for hosting "Saturday Night Live" two years ago.

The upper classes learn the joys of delis and, later, the different ethnic cuisines that ride successive crests of popularity.

The face of Gen Sisi, the former military intelligence chief who is now riding a crest of widespread popularity, was everywhere.

Rudolph W. Giuliani leaves office tonight assured of one pedestal in the pantheon of New York mayors: no other modern mayor, not even Fiorello H. La Guardia, departed at the crest of his popularity.

"When I get scared and worried," she said at the time, "I tell myself, &apos Janis, just have a good time.' So I juice up real good and that's just what I have". By the time she was riding the crest of rock popularity, having soared into prominence with her rendition of "Love is Like a Ball and Chain" and the 1967 Monterey Rock Festival.

Mr Fleck, who released his first album in 1979, has noticed crests and ebbs of popularity, the latter usually coming as the result of an external event he cites the films "Deliverance", with its minatory dueling-banjo scene, and the more recent "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", whose soundtrack features bluegrass and old-time luminaries such as Ralph Stanley.