Word: populistic
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What happened? When did tumescence become a medical necessity, and how did health reform rise from its long slumber to become an issue of burning national interest? Perhaps Viagra was just a media catalyst, the populist hook that finally put managed care back on the front page. Or perhaps the politicians in Washington, searching desperately for emotional issues at a time of peace and prosperity, finally found a point of irritation to which they can apply some soothing legislative balm...
Members of the more populist ACSR say theircommittee is restricted to a reactive role,devoting all of its time to ineffective and highlyspecific proxy questions. They say the Universityshould at least create an arena in whichinvestments can be discussed...
...Arizona home at the age of 89, the Republican party to which he had devoted his political career -- the party that Goldwater had almost single-handedly transformed in the sixties from a stolid, moderate force dominated by the Eastern elite to a movement of crisp conservatism with a populist Southern and Western base -- was no longer recognizable...
...there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas Kiss, opens in New York City this week. Starring Liam Neeson, Hare's play examines the aftermath of the episode when words finally failed Wilde: the trials for "gross indecency" (1890s British legalese for homosexuality) that ended in his imprisonment and ruin but also assured his permanent status as a gay-rights...
What was Phil Knight thinking when he agreed to appear in Michael Moore's just released movie? If he actually trusted the populist filmmaker to intervene as Knight went postal on camera and started pumping round after round into his own foot, then Nike's founder is even more out of touch than legend has it. Who volunteers for an ambush interview and then, to compound his error, publicly condemns the outcome...