Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown, who characterized his campaign as a "populist movement," often shouted his statements to a friendly, but noisy, audience...
Marshall has made some meretricious movies (we'll just mention his last two, Beaches and Pretty Woman), but in the '70s he produced some bright, populist TV comedy (Laverne and Shirley, Mork & Mindy). No surprise, then, that McNally's play, a bedroom debate for two characters, is now a superior sitcom pilot, with lots of brisk banter and a wacky supporting cast. Setting: West Side luncheonette. Owner: a menschy Greek (Hector Elizondo). Waitresses: & sleep-around Cora (Kate Nelligan) and drab, acid Nedda (Jane Morris). Mood: strenuously genial. Take on New York: it's a hard place, but ya gotta...
...will honor him for having set in train the second Russian revolution. The White House, however, has favored him not for his historic qualities but for his personal and political ones: he was the polished, predictable, if dictatorial, leader of a unitary Soviet state. Yeltsin was the crude, rash, populist leader of a new political animal (Russia), a china-breaking democrat...
...Harkin (D-Iowa) lies on the campaign trail about his deaf brother Frank and talks populist while owning a house in the Bahamas...
...Metropolis" represents the populist side of the "new" art history, which looks at works of art mainly in their relation to ideology, social events and the culture at large, without drawing strict hierarchical distinctions between "high" and "low" art. The advantage of this stance is . that it enables you to create more compelling narratives about art than more traditional connoisseurship could. You can reach out and argue about what things say in concert -- novels, propaganda, music, film, advertising, magazines, TV, as well as painting, sculpture and architecture. The disadvantage is that it tends to ignore the exceptions -- outstanding works...