Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite this fiscal insignificance and the innocuous, even noble, nature of almost everything it underwrites, the NEA has become one of the most controversial agencies of government. A target for President Reagan on the theory that merit ought to be defined by the populist mechanism of the box office, it spent the past decade spiraling downward from dreams of expansion to danger of demise. Artists and administrators who benefit from the NEA's money and imprimatur concede they have blown the political debate. They allowed the right wing to misrepresent culture as a hotbed of the unpatriotic, the irreligious...
...that their work was not obscene, a term even the U.S. Supreme Court has trouble defining. He then irked conservatives by dropping the certification and reinstating some taboo artists. He tried to appease two sides utterly uninterested in compromise -- one ablaze with the First Amendment, the other afire with populist indignation at forcing citizens to support unwelcome ideas. He was also contending with congressional demagoguery and, inside the agency, with a deputy and potential successor, Anne-Imelda Radice, widely regarded as a watchdog for the right...
...democracy and freedom. She's always been a populist in that she believes the country should be ruled by the people," says Alvin M. Foster, a Fulani supporter from Mattapan who calls himself an anarchist...
...talks about developing a "truly populist economic recovery" which would redistribute the nation's wealth through a restructured tax code that would include an increase in taxes on the rich...
...next Bush-Buchanan showdown is set for March 3 in Georgia, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich believes the challenger may strip as much as 30% from the incumbent's vote. Though it hardly seems possible, Buchanan has escalated his rhetorical blasts to new heights of populist rage. Late last week Buchanan was appealing to racial resentments by accusing Bush of signing a civil rights bill that would sanctify reverse discrimination against whites. "If you belong to the Exeter-Yale G.O.P. club, that's not going to bother you greatly because, as we know, it is not their children...