Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Gorbachev era, political life in Moscow crackled with all the raw power of a performance of Boris Godunov. The Soviet leader's personality clashes with Russian populist Boris Yeltsin, their pendulum swings from angry betrayal to wary reconciliation, were as important for the process of perestroika as finding the right mechanisms for a free-market economy. Then came the high drama of the August putsch and the final unraveling of the union. Given his turbulent career, the Soviet leader probably never suspected that everything would come tumbling down just because three republic leaders decided to hold a weekend...
Road picture, feminist parable and populist comedy, this tale of two ladies looking for adventure and getting more than they bargained for outraged the humor-handicapped, but dug into the ribs of the ribald. In the title roles, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were gloriously wiggy...
What has more Arizonans worried is that their populist political culture has run amuck. "It's the Wild West at its best," says Republican Senator Jan Brewer. "We don't stymie folks here. But that sometimes brings problems." That rugged individualism wreaked havoc in the 1980s on a state that was determined to maintain its boom economy. The fortunes that were once extracted from gold mines were now found in real estate and land development. But an economic downturn combined with a more involved electorate has brought an end to that freewheeling past...
These apparitions frequently embarrass clerics who have downplayed her role since the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. "It's all the fashion," sniffs Father Jacques Fournier of Paris, reflecting skepticism about the populist wave of sightings. The hierarchy is wary about most of the recent claims of miraculous appearances; only seven Marian sightings in this century have received official church blessing...
Behind Vatican II's reconsideration of the Virgin and some of the uneasiness expressed over her populist revival, say feminists, is a concern over making Mary into a competitive divinity, a tradition common to many of the pagan religions that Christianity superseded. Remarks Warner: "The great terror is that she will be worshipped above...