Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politicians, of course, are not America's only leadership class and not the only ones to have failed in their responsibility. Leaders of business, finance, academe and the news media knew intellectually that the Reagan Administration had replaced the Democrats' tax-and-spend with the hugely popular but unsound practice of spend-and-borrow, and that the nation's prosperity in the '80s was being stolen from its children and grandchildren...
...first glance Nixon seems an unlikely subject, treated by an equally unlikely trio of Harvard graduates. Composer John Adams, 40, a minimalist of burgeoning popular appeal, had never written an opera before; Poet Alice Goodman, 29, had never written a libretto; and Director Peter Sellars, 30, was notorious for brassily upstaging the classics, setting Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem and Handel's Orlando partly on Mars...
...locker room, Young is reserved, but extremely popular among his teammates...
...fast-paced film is about "just some poor schmuck walking down the street, reading his popular magazine when he gets struck by lightning and dies," the North House resident said. In the technically sophisticated film, the character tumbles into the afterlife, where he experiences both heaven and hell...
...original idea for a Kwazulu-Natal indaba came from the South African Sugar Association, seeking to protect its sugar estates from falling under the communal land tenure that prevails on the Kwazulu bantustan. It was seconded by the Buthelezi Commission, which hoped to separate political planning "from popular participation, and placed decision-making in consensus sessions between leaders representing various constituencies...