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Word: mainstream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something of a signal. Rock 'n' roll, roughly 25 years old, has endured, mutated and flourished. Only one thing has changed. Rock started as rebel music. It has been big business for years. This weekend is a reminder that it has slipped smoothly into the cultural mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Rocking in Store | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Ramones saying anything like "I don't love you anymore/What do you want to talk to me for/You should have let me walk by/Memories make me cry." But still it's a nice, actually mellow song that proves the Ramones might even be able to make it in the mainstream if they wanted...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: No Sleeping Pill | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...dancers are by no means the mainstream homosexual world; as Holleran writes...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Gatsby in Drag | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib, they set the standard for sophisticated light comedy in American pop culture. Unfortunately, The Corn Is Green does not play to Hepburn and Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental drama. Hepburn plays Miss Moffat, a no-nonsense English schoolteacher who arrives in a poor Welsh town to educate young coal miners. Right away she finds a gifted pupil, Morgan Evans (Ian Saynor), whom she puts into strenuous training to compete for an Oxford scholarship. Despite a few unspectacular mishaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Little Corn, Lots of White House | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...areas the high bench has refused to enter, state courts are now active; for example, courts in New York, California, Ohio, Connecticut and New Jersey have mandated equal financing for school districts. Whatever restraint the courts have shown, says Harvard's Freund, are "eddies in the mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Have the Judges Done Too Much? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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