Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart's journalistic career has taken him through wars and upheavals in Viet Nam, India and the Middle East, yet he considers the Burma rebellion unique. "This is the first genuinely popular revolt I have ever witnessed," he says. "The people here have faced armed force with moral force and given the world a lesson in courage." A lesson that Stewart and Tucci, alone among the Western press, have been on hand to record...
...Practical Cats (1939). The smash show has been seen by some 25 million people in 15 countries and contributed more than $2 million in royalties to the Eliot estate. Purists shudder at such commercial success and its spin-offs. Says Critic Hugh Kenner: "Eliot wanted to connect with a popular audience, but Cats wasn't what he had in mind...
...impoverished island's economic expansion, percolating at 5% last year, had been set back a decade. That estimate may have been unduly pessimistic, but not by much. Most visibly, the glossy hotels and clubs that pull in the island's tourist trade were left a shambles, especially in the popular north-coast resort areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. The banana crop, which was expected to produce a banner 50,000- ton harvest this year (up from just 10,000 tons in 1984), was largely destroyed. So were the coconut, coffee, sugar and winter-vegetable crops...
...consolidate Bush's conservative following, it should help bring the undecided and wavering moderates/independents--who may not be extremely liberal, but who do not identify with the Far Right either--into the Dukakis camp. This strategy, which failed Mondale in '84, is viable now due to the shift in popular opinion concerning the Far Right in light of the televangelist and Iran-Contragate scandals which have tarnished their image...
...short, Dukakis, must start arraigning Bush. As someone challenging a fairly popular status quo, the burden of proof is on him to show us the "Why?" behind the imperative, "Change." He cannot do this if he is constantly on the defensive. Put George Bush on the stand; seize the "populist initiative." This has to be Dukakis' gameplan through November or else he will lose as surely as Mondale did in '84 and Carter did in '80. Sunday night's debate will be Dukakis' best chance to get back on the offensive...