Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political survival. For the first time, the official opposition party, the Bloc Quebecois, with 54 seats, is an organization dedicated to the country's dismemberment. The Bloc, led by Lucien Bouchard, 54, aims to take Canada's predominantly French-speaking province out of Confederation. In the west the conservative populist Reform Party won 52 seats. Its leader, Preston Manning, 51, has often declared himself unwilling to make further constitutional concessions as the price for Quebec's remaining in the union...
...always had some reservations about Aristide, a left-wing populist. Bill Clinton's advocacy has been for the democratic process in Haiti and a President elected by a 67% majority. Clinton holds to that position, but Congress has narrowed his options with a nonbinding resolution sponsored by Dole calling on the President to notify Congress before dispatching troops to Haiti...
...Populist right-wing king Rush Limbaugh and populist wild man Howard Stern have millions of listeners -- and new mega-best sellers. They're surfing the same part of the zeitgeist...
...talked a bit both at the book reading and in your book about populism being a term that's misused greatly. ("Calling David Duke a populist is like calling Pat Buchanan a global visionary: message--Zulus are coming.") Can you ever...
...42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name-brand superstores. The goal is not a "themed" simulacrum of honky-tonk diversity but the real thing. Such a splendidly oxymoronic turn: a municipal code for discouraging tastefulness, a quarter-billion dollars spent to conjure a trashy Damon...