Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were high-minded, sometimes high-handed, moderate Republicans from the Eastern Establishment, and they ran the party -- and the nation -- during the Eisenhower years, combining a progressive outlook on social issues with a pragmatic one on international affairs. They are nearly all gone now, shunted aside by the more populist conservatism of the Age of Reagan. One of the last of that breed, the soft-spoken, easygoing Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, is leaving the Senate in exactly the manner in which he served there: with quiet detachment and dignity...
...American moviemaking keeps him from joining Stallone's exploitational bandwagon. He didn't want to take part in Rocky II, he said, because "I thought the script was really lame." Avildsen had hoped to make a Rocky trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near you has nothing less than...
Democratic Rep. Tom Daschle, a farm populist, unseated incumbent James Abner. For governor, Republican favorite George Mickelson squeaked by ex-farmer Lars Herseth...
...this seems a bit rarefied for the populist currents of rock culture, it should be remembered that Byrne and the Heads were one of the few new-wave bands to groove on black music and learn from it. Heads albums like Fear of Music (1979), Remain in Light (1980) and the stunning Speaking in Tongues (1983) have a heavy soul inflection and an African accent. When Byrne collaborated with Rock Producer and Theorist Brian Eno on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), the results were like trance music programmed for a ghetto blaster...
...advised his party, "it is 'Care about me, don't forget about me, and don't sell me out.' " That theme had particularly loud resonance in this year's primaries; with turnout even lower than usual, activists who cared enough to vote gave the results a strongly populist tilt...