Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What, in the end, is one to make of this show? The problem is to decide the grounds for judgment, since it is so frank about its "populist" aims. Met Director Philippe de Montebello makes no bones about this. "The prime moving purpose of the assembly of these works," he says, "is not to make a contribution to scholarship. We have tried to make a distillation, to save the public exhaustion. How many late Roman family portrait busts do most people want to see?" Fair enough, but to lug (for instance) tons of Egyptian sculpture from the Vatican...
During a five-hour stopover in Bogota, Reagan met with quasi-Populist President Belisario Betancur at his official residence, Narifto House. Betancur took office last August and has already symbolically yanked foreign policy away from unquestioning fealty to Washington, most notably with a proposal that Colombia join the Non-aligned Movement, a largely Third World group...
...Forst, Herald editor since 1979, would probably agree. Last year he converted the paper to a zippy, insouciant tabloid that is perhaps more like the Post than any other non-Murdoch daily; it features vivid sports coverage, a populist-conservative editorial page and, emblazoned across the front page, hard-selling headlines sometimes 4 in. high. (Samples: TORTURE MODEL TEEN TO DEATH; POLS TAKE CARE OF SELVES.) The tabloid format boosted circulation by 48,000. Stephen Mindich, publisher of the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 140,000), is an admirer: "The Herald may hype stories, but the facts are correct...
...long as I can remember Even before I could read. I would nab the magazine as soon as the mailman delivered it, and look for the pictures of the movie and TV starlets lurking under the big heading. "P-E-O-P-L-E" Call me a populist if you must. I love the "People" section. And I've got a pretty good hunch that I'm not the page's only fan. I think everybody reads...
...Figueiredo has reason to feel sympathy for political exiles. As a boy, he spent years in Argentina because his father, also a general, had fled Brazil in 1938 after failing in an attempt to overthrow Brazilian Populist Dictator Getulio Vargas...