Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showing that he is no new-style Democrat but is turning out to be an old-style, activist Northern Democrat," Fiorina says. "If he pulls it off, great. But if the economy is struggling along and we get nothing new, then people will say 'Hey, we got fooled again.' And they will blow off the Democrats...
Angels is the first gay-centered play to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama; the runner-up was the best show of the off-Broadway season, the equally gay and angry memoir of AIDS activist Larry Kramer, The Destiny of Me. A decade ago, the theater establishment collectively winced when its vital self- advertisement to Middle America, the telecast of the Tony Awards, opened with a best-play prize to the flamboyant Harvey Fierstein for Torch Song Trilogy. This year it seems likely that virtually every category may be won by shows with gay elements. Among the other contenders: Lynn...
...first billion, BGH ran into a major roadblock: Rifkin. The activist has campaigned against everything from the space shuttle to beef consumption, but his single biggest beef is about genetically engineered food products...
...BOTTOM LINE: An activist message grafted to a buoyant rock beat produces Mad Max music you can dance...
...Earth and Sun and Moon the wages of justice remain the same, but the lyrics are sharper, the music deeper. The band, which has been influenced by the Aboriginal cultures of the Australian outback, has forged a passionate yet never preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental terms. Propelled by jagged guitar riffs and a buoyant rock beat, the 11 songs seethe with apocalyptic images derived from urban nightmares and primordial dreams. Dust storms, hurricanes and infernal conflagrations rake the world in a kind of New Age Armageddon. In the eyes of Midnight Oil, Mother Nature has been...