Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tactics used by Bush's strategists to brand Michael Dukakis a gooey liberal out of touch with mainstream values, none worked better than the relentless pounding of Horton's horrible tale. By the end of the campaign, scarcely a voter had not been exposed to the lurid details of the rapacious spree Horton committed while on weekend furlough from the Massachusetts prison to which he had been sentenced to life without parole for a brutal 1974 homicide...
...cold rain, some 200 students at Yale University's School of Organization and Management abandoned their studies last week for an old- fashioned protest rally. The target of their angry slogans: a campaign by Yale president Benno Schmidt to push the innovative but troubled business school into the mainstream of M.B.A. academies. Said Jane Melvin, a first-year student: "This amounts to a hostile takeover of the school...
...Tuesday, whatever the margin of victory, that lingering question has already marred the mantle of legitimacy that would otherwise surround the new President. Nothing, for example, could be more specious than Bush's desperate claims in the waning days of the campaign, "If I win, it will be a mainstream mandate -- that's what this election is all about." A mandate represents a covenant between the candidate and his constituency about what he plans to accomplish. But almost all the causes Bush embraced were both negative and irrelevant to the White House; it would be a bizarre ritual...
Amnesia, which has drawn critical acclaim, has a musical range that spans from an adaptation of poet William Blake's "Jerusalem" to mainstream rock songs, like Thompson's current hit, "Turning of the Tide...
...Everyone knows who owns the press," Cockburn said, condemning the owners of various outlets for influencing the news. He said the American public believes there is a "free press," but that in certain instances, the "mainstream media can't move...