Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beta owners will be surprised. Anyone who has tried to rent Beta movies has had difficulty finding recent film releases. Even though most major Hollywood studios still produce Beta versions of their movies, retail stores and rental shops devote most of their shelf space these days to the more popular (and more profitable) newly released VHS versions of such films as Roxanne and Tin Men. But as the ranks of Beta devotees thin out, they have one small consolation. They will face less competition in renting the Beta ) tapes still available. When they want to check out that well-worn...
...winter's main show at Manhattan's Japan House Gallery, "Paris in Japan," is not popular stuff. Its subject looks almost quaintly peripheral. It sets out to describe the impact of French art on Japanese artists who went to Paris between 1890 and 1930, the highest years of French influence on world culture. It does not contain a single masterpiece; almost everything in it is derivative, and not always very intelligently so. One would not normally cross the street to see earnest Japanese pastiches of Renoir, looking like inflamed rubber dolls. The only artist in it whom anyone in America...
...Fine Arts opened in 1887,its American co-founder, the "Boston bonze" Ernest Fenollosa, insisted that it teach only traditional Japanese techniques. But by 1896 most of its students were petitioning to learn oil painting, and a Western department had to be set up; thereafter, it was the most popular part of the school...
...dreamed up the Rube Goldberg system that now determines the nominees in each party; it evolved on its own, guided only by the law of unintended consequences. And no, the complex and arcane system is not good for democracy; successive attempts at reform have created the illusion of popular selection, not the reality. Most of the electorate is excluded from participating until a handful of voters in unrepresentative states winnows the field by at least half. If a Third World nation had devised such a nominating system and imposed it on its people, Americans might logically conclude that...
These age-old images of Iowa, however, die hard. Even the candidates, who routinely feign enthusiasm while touring hogpens, foster the hayseed stereotypes. Although their state dominates the news in the closing weeks before the caucuses, Iowans can rightly claim to be misunderstood. Four myths in particular color popular assumptions about the state and its voters...