Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears to be bobbing in the political mainstream, Publisher William Rusher, 57, hastens to explain that it is not because the magazine has moderated any of its positions. Says Rusher: "The fact is the political center in this country has moved to the right...
Some Republicans think the New Right has already over-extended itself. The mainstream of the GOP has sharply criticized NCPAC's meddling in many Senate races, and at least one high-ranking GOP insider brands the whole experience a "negative influence" on Republican campaign efforts. Joe Frumkin, a spokesman for the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, grits his teeth at Dolan's suggestion that NCPAC will oppose moderate Republicans in 1982. "We'll just have to stick it to them," Frumkin says...
...after its chairman, John E. Dowling, professor of Biology--has met bi-monthly to consider the role of the assembly and possibilities for strengthening student government. The committee is now preparing to write its initial report; it will probably propose a plan that would incorporate the assembly into the mainstream of University decision-making and possibly would provide the group with a $60,000 annual budget. Students, Faculty and the Corporation would all have to approve such a plan--by voting on it this spring or next fall--before it could take effect...
...assumes her readership will be able to relate to her multi-divorce, psychiatrist-guided life. But whether the majority of American women find O'Reilly's world view easy to identify with, she at least tries hard to reach them. She has attempted and still strikes to make mainstream and familiar a movement that is often threatening--to both men and women. In this attempt to gain a larger audience for feminism, however, O'Reilly avoids the more uncomfortable issues of the women's movement: lesbianism, "Managerial Women" who are as power-hungry as the male corporate executives who oppress...
...During Wartime," a periodic dance tune that is easily the biggest hit they've had (getting more play than "Psycho Killer" from the Talking Heads: '77 album). An entire album like that probably would have broken them into the big time. But art-rock groups do not always seek mainstream acceptance. The Talking Heads have instead followed the path started by "I Zimbra," a seemingly one-shot affair that got heavy play on disco stations because of the nonsense lyrics' throbbing polyrhythmic background...