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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...
...POLAND Election Surprise Poland's Democratic Left Alliance and its coalition partner the Labor Union took 216 seats in parliament, 15 short of an overall majority. Significant blocks of seats went to parties opposed to Poland's accession to the European Union. Self-Defense, the peasants' party led by populist Andrzej Lepper, gained 52 seats and the right-wing League of Polish Families won 38. Solidarity, the loose coalition that had led the previous government, failed to win any seats. ISRAEL Anniversary Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza observed a three-minute silence to mark the first anniversary...
...GUARD Koizumi's biggest enemies are from within his own party, the Liberal Democrats. His reform agenda is designed to destroy the Establishment and their pork-barrel politics. They'll be chipping away at his plans every chance they get Koizumi's plan: Act the populist and use every attack against his agenda as a way to garner even more support. Cram through reforms before people realize just how bad things are Outlook: GOOD. They can make life difficult for Koizumi, but they don't offer any appealing alternative...
...Apropos of another of its Renegades covers, Kick Out the Jams, Rage aimed to be a modern-day MC5, using hard-edged music to ram through a hard-nosed message that was less about peace and love than about old-fashioned, a-pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also one of the few acts in recent years to crack the charts with an unfiltered political message. They were, in their words, "calm like a bomb." Even higher-profile, socially conscious artists like Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen have seemed increasingly like museum docents in their...
Thus the unstated premise behind all of these sites is that "my opinion is as good as anybody's." That populist philosophy has always made democracy a tough cultural climate for professional critics--the people paid to have views that are supposed to be, well, better. Even personal trainers can be certified. But the authority of critics rests on their powers of persuasion alone. "In a sense, we're all self-appointed," says David Denby, who writes about movies for the New Yorker, a magazine that prides itself on the luster of its critical writing. "There are no tests, like...