Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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While know-nothingism is generally confined to the more dismal corners of the American psyche, it seems all too predictable that during the next decades many more mainstream white Americans will begin to speak openly about the nation they feel they are losing. There are not, after all, many nonwhite faces depicted in Norman Rockwell's paintings. White Americans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the very picture of their nation. Inspiring as it may be to the rest of the world, significant as it may be to the U.S. role in global politics, world trade and the pursuit...
...white males? Nunn and Robb, Senators Lloyd Bentsen and John Breaux and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton are the D.L.C.'s stars. Dizzy with turning points, raw with fresh starts, wide-awake with new days dawning, their new Democratic Party has blotted out the L word with the M word: mainstream. That is D.L.C. code for letting the constituency it wants to woo know that the constituency it used to depend on -- feminists, gays, blacks and Big Labor -- has lost influence...
That label won't stick on "mainstream" Clinton. Comfortable being whisked off in a limousine in the evening to Antoine's by lobbyists for RJR Nabisco, the quintessential symbol of 1980s corporate greed, he can then preach Democratic values in the morning. Clinton is the perfect front man for an organization that celebrates the work ethic of the common man while relying almost entirely on the Fortune 500 for operating funds. Although Clinton has recovered from his stupefyingly long prime-time address at the 1988 convention, he is still a techno-Democrat, one of a dozen...
Perhaps the most remarkable bit of stagecraft in Paris came not from Margiela or Gaultier but from Valentino, who sent a couple of models out carrying briefcases. Not many firms would classify their outfits as dress-for- success mainstream, but it was a nice thought. In fact, a businesswoman or a middle-of-the-road matron can find places to squander cash this year, especially since manufacturers often ship their products with longer lengths, leaving it to stores or customers to chop or not. Lacroix kept his dazzlement to color instead of radical shapes, and at Dior Milan's Gianfranco...
...advances in reproductive technologies have created the need for a feminist analysis of mainstream America's reproductive consciousness, a leading feminist scholar said yesterday...