Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some politicians are in touch with the people, and some are not. However, a hyperdemocracy is more of a good thing than a bad thing. The architects of the U.S. government wanted it to be of the people, by the people and for the people. Politicians like Newt Gingrich are trying to expand the involvement of the people in the process. If you close the government off, all you will get is social discord, and members of Congress who are isolated will receive a one-way ticket back to their home districts...
...entertainment from the real issues being discussed. For too long the national debate has been controlled by editors, reporters and television personalities. Now Americans have the opportunity to control the debate merely by picking up the telephone. We are empowered to voice our ideas without prepackaging by out-of-touch media...
...George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement, song and stagecraft, all at a pace somewhere between high spirited and frenetic...
...that level of government the people said they wanted.'' Weld, Engler and Thompson were perfect Gingrichian heroes--practical, agile, local. By the time the returns were in, any Washington pol who didn't want to hand them part of his power could be accused of being out of touch. All that remained to be seen was whether it was for real. The movement's name--devolution--has a nice millennial-Tofflerian ring. But veteran legislators remembered that Republicans--most recently Ronald Reagan--have promised this sort of thing before. While Reagan downsized many federal programs, he failed to exempt...
...minister's name turned up in an address book seized during a cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians in need of some kind of boost can touch.'' Says former diplomat Manuel Vacula: ``Who does this benefit? Fujimori and the narco-army. Who can say now that the military is a major drug trafficker? It would be treason...