Word: populistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...powerful" campaign slogan, for example, combines smart analysis and a haymaker: "The problem with the slogan was that it didn't give Al the full benefit of our record of economic and social progress or put into sharp relief Bush's explicit commitment to undo that progress. Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country...
...seem like a church"). But the new programs also show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root for the overdogs, the entrepreneurs and the security chiefs who use military-grade surveillance technology to protect their shekels...
...although Nader says he doesn't want the Green Party's formal nomination again, he could get its endorsement at next month's convention, which would put him on its ballot line in some of 22 states where it has one. Meanwhile, Nader is also forming his own Populist Party, which presumably could endorse him as well and take advantage of the fact that in some states--like Florida--it is easier for a new party to put a candidate on the ballot than for an independent...
...pressure thanks to government support, the island's handful of directors have carte blanche to experiment and explore. They have produced some innovative cinema, but there's a reason why none of the eight Taiwan films made last year grossed more than $30,000 in Taiwan. Without the blatantly populist tradition that keeps even Hong Kong's indie directors grounded, filmmakers like Tsai seem to feel little need to connect to the audience on any level. That's a recipe for the kind of movies that exist only to be shown at foreign-film festivals. At the end of Goodbye...
...certain populist auteur made his feature-length debut with 1983’s underappreciated The Hunger, giving world-wide audiences the distinct pleasures of an extraordinarily well-cast David Bowie as an emaciated vampire and a steamy love scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. Since then, Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Now, he is reunited with Crimson Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob...