Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paintings in the show -- with one exception, an inertly sentimental picture of a small black boy in a paper hat -- are still lifes. He was not interested in figures and had no feel for the human face. The best of Harnett is, so to speak, the weak populist end of the best strain in 19th century American art: its adherence to pragmatic, empirical vision, to art as an instrument of the world's measurement. (The great figures in this are Audubon, Eakins and Homer...
...emerged as a populist issue that no politician can resist. This year Michigan Senator Carl Levin introduced the "Corporate Pay Responsibility Act," which, among other things, would permit shareholders to vote on the policies directors use to set compensation. The real target of the bill is stock options, which Levin describes as "stealth compensation" because the value of options does not show up on the books of companies as expenses. So long as companies don't have to expense the value of options against earnings, says Levin, executives will be generous about awarding themselves this form...
Piece of work. H. Ross Perot. He's the best right-wing populist billionaire we've got in Texas, so if you don't like him, you're out of luck...
This is not a man who has grasped the concept of dead oceans. American Perot-nistas bear a superficial resemblance to the Argentine variety. What we have here is a strongman, a right-wing populist: no party, no program -- just a cult of personality. All he needs now is an Evita...
Brown's office would not accept gifts. And, foreshadowing the populist impulse that defines Brown in 1992, he refused to live in the governor's mansion built by Reagan, instead opting to sleep on a mattress on the floor of a state-owned apartment...