Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international politics, Munich is a word of shame. The 1938 conference at which Britain and France agreed to let Adolf Hitler's troops occupy a big chunk of their ally Czechoslovakia made the city's name synonymous with a cowardly sellout to aggression. So it is no surprise that the organizers of the international conference on the Balkans that is scheduled to meet in London this week staunchly deny they will countenance a rerun. Just the opposite, says British Deputy Foreign Secretary Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going...
Such is the logic of alternative rock. It goes something like this: A really cool "alternative" band is somehow presumptuous enough to sign a record contract with a major label. Now everyone can buy their tapes. They get some radio play. They make a video. They tour. Bingo. "Mainstream. "Sellout. Q.E.D...
Still, better to be accused of being a sellout than a has-been. And while Altman gleefully nurses some particular grudges -- against certain producers, certain executives, certain critics, Sam Shepard -- he seems free of general bitterness. Sure, he feels a little gypped out of M*A*S*H money ("I never got paid anything ((from the TV series)) -- anything"), but for all his visceral mistrust of Hollywood, he doesn't seem sour about his decade of reputation shrinkage and quasi-exile. After all, every few years he has been lucky enough to turn out something great. So what...
...measure of how much arts leaders misjudged the effectiveness of such tactics that after two years of denouncing NEA chairman John Frohnmayer as a sellout for his attempts to placate the right wing, last week they were mourning his forced resignation and envisioning his heir as sure to be worse. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "If President Bush got a message in New Hampshire, we did too." A chilling sign for arts leaders is that some liberals now join in doubting whether government should finance ideas. It was the talk of Washington...
...other side, the Patriotic Front of 90 mostly black organizations forged last October has split. The far-left Pan Africanist Congress, which still uses the slogan "One settler, one bullet," denounces the convention as a sellout to whites. So does the Azanian People's Organization, a small black- consciousness group...