Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gimmickry to which the subjects she treats so readily lend themselves: out-of-wed-lock pregnancy, parental shame and a runaway's difficulties, single women just a step ahead of poverty, abandoned wife-mothers, young Blacks struggling through militancy in search of dignity, the stereotypical welfare case, homosexuality in mainstream society. But out of this parade of social issues come the same personal interactions with which everyone is too familiar. The women's particular situations are merely a fog obscuring people who, Naylor convinces the reader, are at bottom typical. Fleshed out, these people cease to masquerade as stereotypes...
...policies would seem moderate by comparison. A Harris survey in the same issue of Business Week, however, showed that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter environmental regulations, despite their costs. The simple truth is that Watt himself is the extremist, concern for the environment has earned a firm position within the mainstream of American political opinion. By contrast. What's own recent shenanigans in Washington--such as revoking "protected" status for thousands of acres of land in the Midwest while Congress was in recess--betray a dangerous distregard for public wishes...
...special effects carried Hollywood to one of its most popular years in the U.S. and abroad, European film makers were finding it harder to attract attention, especially in the American market. The "art houses" of the 1960s, where a United Nations of cinema once reigned, now play host to mainstream movies from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Critics' groups, which had regularly knighted Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, now bestow their awards on Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack. With many American critics, moviemakers and moviegoers on a slumming spree, the intellectual cachet of European films has been broken...
...More mainstream abortion foes have chosen to assault not people, but coastitutionalism. A handful of bills are pending in Congress that would strip the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over abortion issues, returning such power to state courts and effectively overturning Roe. Billed in the name of federalism, these bills are of dubious constitutionality at best, according to most legal scholars. In their willingness to undermine the Court to achieve victory on this single issue, proponents of these bills are using a curiously radical means towards a conservative end. Other Congressional proposals that would define the constitutional meaning of "life...
...waiting is over. While some, like Marilyn French (The Women's Room), continue to dissect the feminine psyche and situation, a growing cadre of women has enlarged and honored the literary mainstream. Their books, characterized by less dogmatic treatments of both men and women, and with themes expanded to include family, children and political events, are what New York City Literary Agent Lynn Nesbit calls "postfeminist writings...