Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...velocity of Twin Peaks mania is bound to boomerang. "Fame is an unnatural thing," says Mark Frost, Lynch's TV partner and Twin Peaks co-producer. "There is no equivalent to it in the animal kingdom." A director on the edge gets critical indulgences when he steps into the mainstream; a director on top is ripe for a raspberry. The trick for Lynch is to keep the ebb of acclaim from affecting either his work or his attitude toward...
Organizers of the reborn magazine said that mainstream publications such as The Crimson and the liberal monthly Perspective have stifled political debate on the Harvard campus. In addition, the high-profile attained last spring by the conservative monthly Peninsula convinced many leftists that they needed a new voice on campus, Galiunas said...
...simple last time around. When former President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, liberal and moderate interest groups rallied to block the confirmation, and the Senate promptly nixed his nomination--reasoning that Bork's interpretation of the Constitution was entirely out of sync with the mainstream of American legal thought...
...need for a womens' center is predicated on the belief that there are certain issues specific to gender which historically have been ignored or maginalized in mainstream discourse. Harvard, which itself did not abolish quotas on the number of women admitted until 1975, must bear some responsibility for rectifying this matter...
...that a Harvard-funded women's center is the proper method for fully incorporating women into the Harvard community is by no means as "obvious" as the staff contends. Rather than bring women's (and gender) issues into the mainstream of the University, a women's center will only serve to divide and marginalize such concerns further...