Word: populistic
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...year ago, he ruled his nation, presided at the nexus of corruption, greed, vanity and perfidy that is the right of a despotic head of state. He was evicted from power?unconstitutionally he is eager to remind you?by the sort of populist movement that has become the Philippine way of disposing of such autocrats. And now, his suzerainty over even this little hospital room, these grubby pieces of furniture and ancient hospital beds, is only at the sufferance of the general in charge of Veteran's Memorial Medical Center...
...groaning with his favorite dishes?plates of lechon and cheese, vats of bird-fetus soup and sweet rice-paper rolls, all hustled across town from the fully staffed kitchen of his family home?he tries to conjure his old enthusiasm, to reawaken the fire that he rode to his populist successes. And for a few moments, as he takes up again the role of El Presidente and eagerly feeds those around him?his lawyers, his friends, his hangers-on?and ruminates on the deteriorating economy, on the unfairness of his present situation, on God's will, his eyes come alive...
According to Mead, the Hamiltonian school supports pragmatic and situational solutions, the Jacksonian school is populist and values military prowess, the Wilsonian school believes in a moral commitment to the rest of the world and the Jeffersonian school favors a limited degree of intervention...
...will move you. It will make you think, make you feel. It will draw you in and never let you go. It is touching; it is exciting; it is brutal. It is populist filmmaking at its most powerful. The Multiverse has many movies, but this...
Usually I find myself in the populist camp when it comes to musicals. Unlike most of my colleagues, I'm a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber; I never understood what was so hateful about "The Seussical"; and I seem to be the only thinking person who had a good time at "Saturday Night Fever." It's those glum chamber musicals with their arid faux-Sondheim scores and glowing reviews that typically leave me cold. So when Susan Stroman - who has won raves for fare both highbrow ("Contact") and lowbrow ("The Producers") - turned to Emile Zola's dark novel "Therese Raquin...