Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...splashy color, concise stories, full-color weather map, detailed TV listings and emphasis on entertainment news were not designed to please the Columbia Journalism Review. Those innovations are instead aimed at readers. It is that focus which makes USA Today the nation's only truly populist newspaper...
...accessible than those two prestigious journals. USA Today shouldn't he criticized for what it isn't and what it doesn't try to be. When critics realize this, they will understand why Meatcutter Jim Zillman and millions of other Americans will continue to read and enjoy America's populist newspaper...
...some ways, Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, 49, was already beginning to look like the Prime Minister he has yearned so long to become. Gone were the open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi...
Founded in 1874, the paper dates its rise from 1924, when it was bought by a former police official, Matsutaro Shoriki. A business associate of the American press lord William Randolph Hearst, Shoriki echoed Hearst's populist impulses in his own dictum, "Do not trust experts because they know nothing of the masses...
...creator of this populist style was born in 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio. He was a set designer and stage manager before he took his theatrical flair into industrial design. One of Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst...