Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exchanging pleasantries with Politburo member Yegor Ligachev, the de facto leader of the conservative opposition, when Ligachev returned to his seat after delivering a demagogic rebuttal to Gorbachev's platform. When the vote to approve the document was finally taken -- and passed with only one dissenting vote, from populist Boris Yeltsin -- the Soviet leader broke with tradition and invited the 108 candidate members of the Central Committee and more than a hundred guests to join in expressing their views. This time the response was a unanimous show of hands. The platform, which still must be approved by the party...
KING LEAR. Anglo-Irish wunderkind Kenneth Branagh, acclaimed for his demythologizing film of Henry V, makes his U.S. stage debut as director and co-star of a similarly populist Lear, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
...once chirpy and cynical, Roger & Me is the rare documentary film that doesn't make viewers feel they are being force-fed a civics lesson. But perhaps the movie is no documentary. Its tone, which tempers populist anger with deadpan facetiousness, is heard in much modern comedy -- sort of Laid Off with David Letterman. Moore classifies the film as "a dark comedy, social satire, 'mockumentary...
...sentenced to less than the one-year maximum term. And precedent exists for the jailhouse election of a municipal official. In 1903 Boston's four-time mayor, James Michael Curley, was elected alderman from jail. In fact, an us-against-them argument could appeal to Barry's populist base in a city fractured along racial and class lines...
...endorses lower taxes for both capital gains and Social Security, as do the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the conservative Heritage Foundation, Bush's favorite think tank. Says Donald Leavens, a budget expert for the U.S. Chamber: "How can you go against such a good idea? It's populist, and it will do a lot for economic growth...