Word: peronism
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...wake of that raid, agents came back to arrest Dennis Peron, the club's founder and a leader of support for the ballot measure. But his arrest was so controversial in San Francisco, where local police had already declined to shut down the club, that the indictment had to be obtained in nearby Alameda County. Events had already brought Doonesbury into the picture. For a week Zonker, the comic strip's aging soul-at-large, lamented the bust on Peron's club and went desperately in search of alternative sources for the patients it left stranded. Unfair, said Dan Lungren...
...drought, the deluge: five new movie musicals. The big news is the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita, a stage hit that Hollywood has wanted to film for nearly two decades. Alan Parker (Fame) finally got it done, with Madonna as Argentina's Material Girl, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas as the narrator...
...original architect of Yeltsin's policies, believes a return to a Stalinist state is impossible now, but he fears that the economy's nascent stability might not survive a communist restoration. If Zyuganov reaches the Kremlin, he says, the result may be populism of the sort that Juan Peron tried in Argentina, marked by irresponsible government spending, high inflation, price controls and shortages...
...movie Evita bombs, it won't be for lack of publicity. Not a frame has been shot, yet the film has generated the sort of controversy that surrounds a sighting of the (other) Madonna. Buenos Aires' walls are decorated with slogans supporting either MS. PERON, inset, or MS. CICCONE, who appears, at left, in an exclusive, official portrait as Argentina's once and future, if unofficial, queen. Madonna, who has already recorded the score, plus one song written for the film, is sufficiently inured to the buzz to appear in public, albeit under guard. But even President Carlos Menem...
...tension, even gridlock. The way to rise above that is not with some man on a white horse mouthing mush. The way to elevate politics is to elect a man with a party and a program and give him a shot. The American way is Franklin Roosevelt, not Juan Peron...