Word: populists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...latest edition of Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean for President last week. This surprised a lot of people, including me. But Gore 6.0 seems more radical than previous models, with a passion upgrade from the glitches in 5.0 (clumsy populist presidential candidate), 4.0 (clumsy earth-toned presidential candidate), 3.0 (loyal Vice President) and 2.0 (militant New Democratic candidate for President in 1988). Watching Gore and Dean together on the podium--twins in dark blue suits and light blue ties, Gore in populist growl-shout mode, complete with intermittent Southern accent--I realized the utter logic of the move...
...wrote in 1979. Maybe that even works better for our purposes. It’s more jaded, certainly. You can hear the tired sigh, the burden of having said something that people put on bumper stickers. But it also indicates a sort of populist quality, like everyone can get in on this fame and fortune thing and everyone has a story to tell. In that spirit, we present you with our final issue of the year. In Fifteen Minutes everybody is famous. It’s a yearbook of sorts, which goes appropriately with the whole quotation thing...
...further expansion, Menino furiously denounced Harvard for launching “a full-scale attack” on Boston, and doing so with “the highest level of arrogance seen in our city in many years.” In June, fearful of the popular (and populist) mayor turning up the rhetoric again, Alan Stone, Harvard’s vice president of government, community and public affairs, scrambled to say, “We’ll work hard at our relationship with the mayor, we’ll work very hard.” This latest project...
...duck, fattiest of birds, can sometimes be too oily when prepared as a confit—that is, cooked in its own fat—but here, the tortilla reigns in the fattiness, buffered by the avocado salsa. The result, if not exactly health-conscious, neatly melds the populist bar-side snack with prime ingredients and cookery...
...Democrats are losing their voice. They are losing the populist vote. They are not representing sharply, clearly working class people,” said Reich. “We are becoming by default a party of elite. We are allowing Republicans get away with a huge lie—that they represent the working class...