Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viewed against China's 5,000-year history, Mao's revolution already looks like a tiny, violent, unmatchably murderous moment. But no more than a moment. China is remaking itself at warp speed. Deng Xiaoping's immortal slogan, "To get rich is glorious," has replaced Mao's aphorisms in the same way that the tabloid Shopper's Guide has supplanted his Little Red Book. But the Chinese are discovering that while getting rich is marvelous, it can also be numbing. Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion. Indeed, Hu Jintao, a contender to succeed President Jiang, built...
...Unemployment, of course, isn't the only discordant element in modern China's claims to Mao's communist legacy. In 1979, then-leader Deng Xiaoping coined the rather novel (for a communist) slogan "To get rich is glorious." And today's China is anything but classless; in fact, its income inequalities are more pronounced than those of some of its avowedly capitalist Asian neighbors. Marx, Lenin and Mao would spin in their graves at what passes for communism in China at the end of the 20th century...
Newmark, who likes to mention his old pocket protector and taped glasses, is surrounded by attractive women at the many parties he attends. In fact, Newmark is popular enough that his half-baked bid to be San Francisco's next mayor (his slogan is "Sucks Less") has received an approving nod from such e-media as Salon. But he's not devoting much time to his campaign. "I have the ability to influence people anywhere," he says. "So why bother with mayor...
...barely matters whether she can actually persuade her husband to satisfy these groups. In politics, where perceptions can mean more than facts, people have come to believe in the two-for-the-price-of-one slogan the Clintons once advertised...
...Benjamin Disraeli in the other. What could Disraeli, the great 19th century British Prime Minister, possibly tell us about Iowa? For Rove, that's easy. Disraeli was a Tory who championed the common man, a "compassionate conservative" more than a century before Bush turned the phrase into a campaign slogan...