Word: panderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lynnfield Pioneers show off their pop sensibility on "Unlucky Stars." Though one of the more conventional tracks, it doesn't pander to possible radio play by compromising the band's out of tune, abrasive sound. The outfit displays their danceable side on "Get Off Your Feet." Janson and Cook sing catchy couplets in a style redolent of "Licensed to Ill." The song adheres to lyrical convention, enjoining the listener to "Dance!" many times over. The band approaches these conventions with a refreshing irony that prevents "Get Off Your Feet" and other more dance-oriented cuts from losing their originality...
...Mediterranean with Dodi in shades and shorts on his father's yacht, would there have been a phalanx of photographers in a high-speed chase to capture yet another glimpse of the couple? There's an audience for celebrity pap, and when the mainstream press doesn't pander to it directly, it does so indirectly by tabloid laundering: writing about how crazy it is that the tabloids spend so much time covering a royal romance, and then running pictures of the tabs' pictures to say how invasive they are. And the mainstream press is just a step behind the tabloids...
Despite bi-partisan approval of these measures, legislators on both sides of the aisle accuse the other party of supporting them in order to pander to voters...
...Bennett won't gladhand, neither does he pander. He frequently challenges his middle- and upper-class audiences, pointing out that men in the ghetto aren't the only ones walking out on their families these days. In a speech to the Christian Coalition, Bennett urged its members to avoid a "fixation on homosexuality" and instead turn their attention "closer to home," to the epidemic of divorce that poses a worse threat "in terms of damage to the children of America...
...point made by Lamm's wife Dottie, a devout Democrat and a friend of Hillary's who warned her husband that she doesn't want a Dole victory on her conscience. Formerly a Clinton supporter, Lamm himself has repeatedly blasted the President for breaking faith. "You choose to pander to America's special interests," he wrote in an editorial. "You are thinking more about your re-election than Chelsea's future...