Word: shamelessness
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This was widely viewed as shameless pandering, not to mention a cheap imitation of Republican pandering. But it wasn't viewed as surprising. Politics is pandering in a hyperdemocracy; to lead is to follow. Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution sees this as one of the great social costs of modern information technology: in a kind of Darwinian process, hyperdemocracy weeds out politicians with the sort of strong internal principles that defy public opinion. "The advantage enjoyed by people willing to trim their views to the tastes of the electorate was smaller back when you couldn't find out what...
...pages. In printing McGuire's letter, your very clear motive was to allow Peninsula to take an unsubstantial cheap shot at Derek and Perspective and thus to evoke a response that would make your newspaper a little more interesting. Well, here's the response. You are a bunch of shameless whores who sold your integrity to a bunch of jerks. You printed a completely unfair attack on a Harvard student who is among the most progressive, sensitive, and understanding people I know. Derek Ho firmly supports the celebration of Filipino culture, and Perspective firmly supports Derek...
...Generations moves from disaster to disaster as despotic communism devours its own and Germany attacks and destroys millions more. Members of the Gradov family, led by Dr. Boris Nikitovich, make their separate ways through history. Aksyonov impressively spreads out a panorama of suffering, but he overlays it with shameless melodrama, unconvincing uplift and grotesque humor. Readers who sling their hammock, move their samovar onto their veranda and settle down for an old-fashioned summer read may be distracted by a narrative farrago that includes a scene in which Dr. Gradov nearly wins the Order of Lenin for giving Stalin...
...spellbound by the President's agonized dithering over a Supreme Court nominee, a development for which there wasn't really a Melrose Place equivalent -- unless you count Jake's ping-ponging between sexy, bitchy Amanda and not-as-sexy, pregnant Jo. But get this: Clinton, his writers even more shameless than Aaron Spelling's, was torn between three possible candidates, though the President betrayed a misunderstanding of basic genre requirements in that none of his picks looked good in a halter top (still, some people admit to finding Bruce Babbitt cute in a kind of cheerful, nonthreatening...
...deliberately rather plain font of "OK" against a white background with a narrow red border; a sloppily drawn oval-headed fellow looks out quizzically from in front of a wall and a little box of a house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible to the soft-pedal...