Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working in the refugees' favor is a formidable Hispanic power structure in Miami that has aggressively reached out to new arrivals, trying to integrate them into the city. Miami's blacks, meanwhile, feel that the Hispanic powers have conspired to keep them out of the economic mainstream...
...Women on the Verge, Almodovar tried to make a mainstream farce and succeeded beyond the dreams of, say, Billy Wilder -- a Hollywood filmmaker he admires for "revealing a sordid society through the most delicious light comedies." Women doesn't meet that standard; it's more like The Big Chill with a bitter taste. But it does have a plot right out of some beloved old screwball comedy. When the disconsolate Pepa (Maura) tosses a couple dozen downers into her gazpacho cocktail, she triggers a plot device that ricochets happily through the film...
...education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual intercourse, the evidence does not indicate that AIDS is about to break out in a big way into the mainstream population...
...taken by students. Ole Miss's mostly white Interfraternity Council raised $20,000 to renovate another residence for the black fraternity whose house was burned down. Students at Syracuse University last month organized a week-long symposium to celebrate their racial and cultural diversity. The University of Chicago's mainstream paper, Maroon, took the lead in denouncing staffers of a right-wing campus periodical who humiliated homosexuals by placing phony personal ads in a newspaper and then exposing the identities of those who answered. As a result of the Maroon's campaign, two editors of the offending publication were suspended...
...Bikkembergs' current designs, however, convention is also playing a fast game of footsie with pragmatism. There are indications that the Dirker may be working toward an accommodation with the mainstream. He has recently struck a deal with the established Italian manufacturer GIBO, which handles such successful lines as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Sybilla. Where the Dirker comes down heavy on prankishness, Sybilla tends to the winsome and the ingenious. Her clothes are mostly hand finished and full of little surprises, like tucks that form boxes or a hem that looks to have been pushed up for a hasty jump across...