Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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DOUG WILDER Virginia's Governor is clearly enjoying trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. With his "New Mainstream" rhetoric, he's positioned to displace Jackson as the premier black politician...
...Movies told stories about real people, and the audience was meant to care about them. Would Rick leave Casablanca with Ilsa? Would Scarlett get Rhett? Film theorists didn't care. They wanted movies to slip the shackles of realism and burst into modernism. For cinema to enter the intellectual mainstream, there had to be movies whose subject was movies...
...slump has become a full-fledged recession. Thus the city's small, high-profile purveyors of the trendy and transient have less control over their own destinies. Details, a chronicle of downtown marginalia, was bought by S.I. Newhouse Jr.'s Conde Nast, and will be repositioned as a more mainstream men's fashion magazine. And Spy, a satirical magazine that proclaims itself "hip, but suspicious of hip," failed in a highly publicized capital drive, although it still posts slim profits. Spy hopes to hedge its bets by moving into partnership deals in TV and movies...
Those with anything but the strongest leftist leanings are bound to be unsettled by some aspect of the store's political agenda (particularly its recent affinity for the Intifada). But surrounded by a slew of "mainstream" bookstores, Revolution Books offers something truly unique in the Square, and is worth...
...amendment threatens to trivialize politics, its opponents would be making a dangerous mistake to think that the sentiments it reflects are trivial. The Republican resurgence that began in 1968 has been based on a widely shared feeling that America's social fabric is being frayed by the denigration of mainstream values by fringe groups and their apologists. Flag burning stands out as a most egregious example of civil sacrilege, and inflammatory television shots of publicity seekers like the ones who declared last Thursday "Flag Desecration Day" -- it was actually Flag Day -- understandably heighten popular resentment...