Word: panderer
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...include Ray Gandolf's report on buying breakfast at a trendy Los Angeles beanery (he had three frankfurters) and former U.S. Olympic Hockey Captain Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with...
...perverse way, even the courses that pander to the high school crowd that has flocked to Cambridge for the summer hold out the promise of pragmatism, only more subtly. What possible reason is there to take "our Mobile Earth," or "history of the English Language," or-get this--"Political Man, the Community, and the State," except to say you have sampled the liberal-mindedness of the Harvard education--which some poor, misguided soul from New Trier or St. Albans might think will help him or her get into this esteemed institution by the end of the year...
...course, amusing. They toss out references to Brother Blue and Brattle Street, to Harvard professors, Yale graduates, and to old mainstage productions. In true Pirandellian fashion, much of the action derives from improvisation. The dialogue is uneven--some jokes work, others fall flat. Occasionally the references seem designed to pander to A.R.T. subscribers, but on the whole, the company projects the sense of actors at work...
...media's limited coverage reflected an assumption that the public couldn't appreciate anything more substantive than images that pander to the base instincts of a one-dimensional nationalism...
...Democratic candidates if the public were. But the public has the right instinct about early campaigns. For 3½ years out of four a President should govern as he has to (while being challenged in Congress); all too soon will come the season when politicians avoid hard choices and pander to voting blocs. Challengers are not yet entitled to equal time...