Word: populistic
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...that. But first, maybe more puzzling: Why on Earth are so many people willing to let us look? To understand, you need to first look away from television. (Oh, just for a minute. You can do it.) Our culture is deep into a populist period of personal confession, the First-Person Era. There's the unflagging craze for memoirs--especially ordinary people's tales of woe, like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Elizabeth Kim's story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers...
...once just the world's most famous strange architect. That was in the 1980s, when to some people his angular rethinking looked all elbows. That was also when his mixture of high concept with cheap materials--chain link fencing, corrugated metal, pressed plywood--was getting his work labeled "populist," which generally means brainy but cheap. In 1981, when he was named Architect of the Year by his peers in California, he figured he should use the opportunity to accept his prize with a talk titled "I'm Not Weird...
...There is a certain arrogance in assuming that we mandarins know best what the masses should care about, and maybe page views are a populist corrective to that. But it was hard enough already for journalists--online, in print, on TV--to balance what people will reward with what, in our informed opinion, matters. With this irrefutable math, it may become impossible. "A lot of issues that are important in the long run are kind of wonky," says Salon's erstwhile media writer, Sean Elder. Subjects of limited appeal, like international news, may survive in niche publications, but what about...
...Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) condemns the cynically minded attempt by Gordon Brown and the Government to jump on a populist bandwagon and level claims of elitism at Oxford University," according to a recent press release...
...terms for eliminating much of his country's cocaine production, smashing the leftist guerrilla insurgencies of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru movements, and reining in hyperinflation. "Despite its previous support of Fujimori, the U.S. has become concerned that he has, over the past year, resorted to increasingly populist and authoritarian measures to ensure that he stays in power, including rewriting the constitution to allow himself a third term in office," says McGirk. "So a lot of the goodwill he earned over eight years has drained away, both in Washington and among Peruvians themselves." Indeed, there is very little...