Word: populistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, however, an avant-garde of populist architectural historians has been looking at the strip and its larger-than-life iconography without conventional middlebrow contempt. The movement's manifesto is Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Robert Venturi's examination of crowd-pleasing architectural symbolism and buildings designed primarily for drivers. The irony is so American, so pop: cultural highbrows celebrating unself-conscious lowbrow vulgarity...
Kemp is far scrappier and more visceral in his appeal. His punchy, populist style is particularly effective with Main Street and back-street types, both the blue-collar conservatives and the "new-collar" workers in service and clerical jobs. They have little allegiance to Big Business and the country- club set, like Kemp's enthusiasm for what he calls the "opportunity society," and identify with his antiestablishment attitudes and New Right values, such as opposing abortion. One of the original apostles of supply-side tax cuts, Kemp stresses economic growth over budget balancing and touts his vision of a flat...
First-time candidate Clark Abt stressed that he was "a populist Republican who could not be typecast" as he spoke to about 20 members of the organization...
...grandeur of drama, but it has always been a theatrical town--a city of pugilistic journalists and publicity-hunting mobsters, of outrageous politics and a histrionically unruffled electorate. It was probably inevitable, in a city where showmanship has been so much a part of public life, that a feisty, populist stage community would emerge sooner or later. And sure enough, over the past decade, it has, with at least half a dozen companies elbowing their way into national prominence and the best known of them, the Steppenwolf collective, capturing a 1985 Tony Award as the nation's best regional theater...
...northward, word spread last week that Jean-Claude Duvalier, 34, Haiti's President-for-Life, had fled his country. The reports said that Duvalier, who is known as "Baby Doc," and members of his family had gone into exile rather than face vengeance at the hands of a burgeoning populist movement against him. On Friday, in response to growing unrest throughout Haiti, Duvalier imposed a state of siege. Hours later White House Spokesman Larry Speakes made the dramatic announcement to reporters traveling with President Reagan aboard Air Force One that the Haitian government had fallen and Duvalier had left Haiti...