Word: pander
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...scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time. By refusing to pander to the crowd, Brooks puts a healthy distance between himself and such recent comics turned film makers as Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, and Cheech and Chong...
...Broadway dramaturgy. He seems to be saying that a carefully circumscribed adultery will actually improve a marriage, but who in real life can control their passions as well as Doris and George? Same Time, Next Year is full of such hypocrisy; Slade's only real aim is to pander to his audience's most bankrupt fantasies...
...voters stuck with an able Republican Governor, William Milliken, 56, despite a harsh campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during the campaign: "It's a terrible thing to pander to people's fears." He finally won with 57% of the vote-his largest win in three elections...
...tyrant has no followers, only subjects, Burns argues. As a competitor in "a political marketplace," a leader must also have moral purpose to appeal and respond to his followers' wants and needs. In Burns's judgment, the Spiro Agnews and Adolph Hitlers of the world who pander to "the base instincts of persons" embody "the very negation of leadership." Leadership moves humanity towards betterment, not destruction...
...film's vague story starts at the peak of Freed's career, when he was spreading the rock gospel on New York radio and staging riotous live shows at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater. Much of the screenplay appears to be Hollywood fantasy. In his desire to pander to adolescents, Writer John Kaye has transformed his hero into a Christlike figure: kids grovel at the deejay's feet while rockhating adults hound him literally to his death. The real Freed, a self-destructive man who died at age 43 in 1965, is far more fascinating than Kaye...