Word: mainstream
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...best mystery of the year to date is in fact a splendid mainstream novel exploring a theme that links almost all good mysteries with the larger literary tradition: the burden of the past. Robert Barnard, a specialist in snide japery (Death of an Old Goat), turns deceptively gentle and affectionate in The Skeleton in the Grass (Scribner's; 199 pages; $15.95), which focuses on the subtleties of the relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer...
...tradition of Rockefeller and Howard Baker, two men coming from the more widely respected wing of the party. To many moderates, including moderate Democrats who voted for Reagan in 1980 and '84, the choice will appear to indicate that a Bush administration will be more in the mainstream than the Reagan administration has been...
...word--liberal--from" Dukakis, and he's right. Dukakis says this election "isn't about ideology." George McGovern isn't on the ballot this year. And George Bush won't be facing Fritz Mondale come November. He'll be facing a competent, hardworking statesman not far from the mainstream of American politics. Republicans won't win by pinning labels on Dukakis...
...those outlaws of the past decade, those rebels against the deep-shag songwriting of mainstream Nashville, have become the '80s Establishment. There is a new pack out there now. Travis and Crowell. Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. K.T. Oslin and the O'Kanes and the supercharged Steve Earle. They are shaking all the wrinkles out of the music and ironing it into a different shape...
Dukakis has studied hard, learning the catechism of mainstream national security theology well. He can probably avoid the gaffes that make foreign policy such a treacherous topic in a campaign, and he seems confident when tossing out debate-sized sound bites. In addition, his high-minded world view is likely to play well if he can learn to articulate it in a more inspiring way; there has always been, for better or worse, a streak of global idealism in the American people...