Word: populist
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...Street Band again, shrewd businessman Springsteen raised ticket prices from about $30 for his mid-'90s solo tour to $67.50 for the high-profile E Street reunion tour of 1999-2000. Now he has again raised ticket prices, this time to $75. There's irony in a "populist" performer squeezing his audience for larger and larger amounts of cash for the privilege of hearing him sing about how tough it is in a cruel world. KYLE MIZE Brownwood, Texas...
...Being a gifted populist artist as well as (his word) a "tittenfilmer," Meyer didn't simply display acres of swollen flesh; he vigorously tilled that fertile field. His top-heavy starlets grunted and hove in aerobicized ecstasy, exhorting their pale male swains to "Strap me on!" Meyer's oeuvre was all about sex: getting it, revering it, suffering for it, joking about it and, mostly, staring at it. He achieved what, John Berger has written, is the essence of cinema: Men looking at women. Women with pontoon protuberances...
...often, these supposedly populist voter initiatives are actually pushed by a particular special interest group. Wealthy individuals or issue advocacy organizations start a "grassroots" movement for their pet cause, dumping tons of money into the bottomless pit of campaigning. As initiatives have taken on new prominence, a cottage industry of campaign consultants, advertising firms and signature gathering groups has arisen. In 1998, California voters saw the most expensive initiative fight ever over a proposal to allow casinos on Indian reservations. Indian groups spent a lot of money pushing the idea, while Las Vegas casinos (which draw a lot of Californians...
...Politicking is second nature to Taufik, whom associates and adversaries alike characterize as a shrewd operator and a natural networker. "He's a grassroots politician in the populist tradition," says Rizal Ramli, a minister in the administration of Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati's predecessor. Those characteristics explain much of Taufik's current behavior, friends say. "He knows the perils and dangers of being political and the President's spouse, and yet he has embraced his position as a power broker," says Jeffrey Winters, an American academic and author of numerous books on Indonesia who is also personally close to both...
...August 25, Oxford University will publish "Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America" by former Senator Gary Hart. Says Kirkus, "Scholarly dissertation meets populist manifesto in politico Hart's case for increased citizen involvement in government...Despite some pie-in-the-sky elements, the argument merits discussion, and the prescriptions are delivered coherently and effectively...