Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters linked hands to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, which included secret protocols that cleared the way for the annexation of the Baltics by the U.S.S.R. during World War II. In a sharply worded declaration, a coalition of popular-front leaders denounced the Soviet occupation and demanded the right to "restore independent statehood." The day before, a special commission of the Lithuanian parliament had declared that the U.S.S.R.'s annexation of the republic in 1940 was invalid, flatly contradicting Moscow's denial that the protocols had any bearing on absorption...
Over the years, American popular opinion has recoiled at revelations that the CIA, beginning with Italy in the late 1940s, has manipulated foreign elections. But in the laissez-faire 1980s, no one seems to notice or care that almost all of the U.S.'s leading political consultants are now doing roughly the same thing for fun and profit. Either way, U.S. intervention may undermine the very democratic values the nation so loudly proclaims. Maybe that old American truism should be amended to read "Politics -- and political consultants -- should stop at the water's edge...
...Rose has resisted the refuge of the Betty Ford defense, so popular among addicted celebrities, that his compulsion to gamble made him do it. But he could not resist dragging his family into his mess. He said he had never looked forward to a birthday as much as his new daughter's first (Aug. 22, 1990), since it would signal his first opportunity to apply for reinstatement to baseball, thus sadly and inadvertently revealing her place in his life relative to the game...
...talisman into the uncertainties of the '90s, sees the difficulty in broader terms. "Rock 'n' roll has just become a new form of Disneyland," he says. "The whole thing has got mythologized to the point where it's just a bunch of rubbish." Greil Marcus, who writes formidably on popular and radical culture (the recent Lipstick Traces), talks about the "suicidal nostalgia" surrounding a lot of contemporary music: "People have been sold a bill of goods about the '60s, as if it were some kind of social Golden Age, when there was no Viet Nam, no social conflict. There weren...
...primary reason that most foreign firms are so interested in a Hollywood presence is that they want popular American programming for their booming TV stations, cable companies, movie theaters and videocassette ventures. "American entertainment is still viewed as the pre-eminent source of programming in terms of production values and creativity," says Jeffrey Logsdon, director of institutional research for the investment firm Crowell, Weedon & Co. The U.S. posted net exports last year of $2.5 billion in movies, home videos and pay-per-view cable TV, an increase of 32% from the year before...