Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publicity strategy marks a shift from past council protests against University actions; such criticisms have traditionally taken the form of a flood of letters to administrators...
...himself across as a regular guy. Bush persuaded voters to forget his background by pushing to the foreground the themes of cultural, not economic, populism: patriotism (the flag and the Pledge) and toughness on crime. His campaign has cynically mined the white fears and racism that feed this form of cultural populism. At the same time, the Bush campaign depicted Dukakis as a "Harvard elitist." Dukakis' initial lawyerly defense of the flag issue played right into that perception...
...LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM. Snaky vampires! Sexy virgins! Fluorescent caskets! Ken Russell's campfire tale may be more camp than fire, but it shows this unabashed mannerist going for baroque in fine form...
Broadway shows, however, do not have to be cast with opera stars to be taken seriously. What they have to be first is respected. "There are great theater pieces of the teens, '20s and '30s that don't exist in performable form," laments McGlinn. "If a show closed out of town, the scores could be thrown out on the last night. A lot of pre-Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hart, Porter and Kern shows are gone forever. We're trying to reclaim from oblivion all the work of America's greatest writers and composers...
...homeless without creating expensive federal bureaucracies. But he either refuses or is unable to articulate his vision. His most ambitious campaign proposals bear Dukakis' characteristic stamp of liberalism on the cheap. He would mandate that employers provide health insurance and covertly pass along the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices. In a technical sense, Dukakis' college-loan proposal is a wonder to behold: graduates would repay the money in the form of a small surcharge on their lifetime earnings, with the Government largely playing the role of collection agent...