Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like the past.' It motivated us to create our own: 'Not like the Fifth Generation...
...Young women in red-checked wrap skirts with layered necklaces of bright beads sang him a welcome song as they jumped straight up in the air. Male dancers wore animal skins and crowned their heads with gracefully curved, white ostrich feathers. All greeted Museveni with a two-word English slogan, in fact, the only words in English they know, "No change! No change...
...with balloons and a playing of "Taxman" - before the bill was even passed, so they could get it on the evening news? Or was he merely hurt that George W. Bush, for all his talk, has still not deigned to make the words "bipartisan consensus" more than a campaign slogan...
...politics, it is useful to toss a pithy slogan to one's partisans like a bone to a junkyard dog. The beauty of slogans is that they tell us what to think before we decide for ourselves. In dispensing with the bothersome chore of thought, they make it easy for us to memorize sound-bytes from the evening news and feel like political sophisticates. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and his pals know this trick well. No sooner did President George W. Bush conclude his fine speech last Tuesday than the Democrats tossed us a meaty slogan from their political...
...bones is that if we don't pause to reflect, we might end up choking. There seems to be a tacit agreement between both parties that if the Bush plan really does target benefits to the rich, it must be rejected. Republican responses instead focus on denying the Democrats' slogan and telling us how good their tax-cut will be for middle-class families. Bush himself anticipated the Democrats' slogan and used last week's speech to shrewdly showcase the middle-class family of Steven and Josefina Ramos. And Bush is, of course, correct: His plan gives a well-deserved...