Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hall prefers to trade quips with the crowd or play around with the band in recurring bits like the "poetry moments," featuring various sidemen reading silly verse. Musically, the show has brought on a host of rock performers -- Kool Moe Dee, Living Colour, Winger -- who rarely get exposure on mainstream TV. And in contrast to the carefully stage-managed routines on the Tonight show, Hall's manic energy sends a signal that just about anything can happen at his nightly party. "There used to be a feeling that late at night people wanted to be put to sleep...
MAKING THEIR MARK: WOMEN ARTISTS MOVE INTO THE MAINSTREAM 1970-85, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. These 87 artists have made their mark, but doesn't categorizing them in such a show only perpetuate their separateness? Through...
...capitalist outlook is still so new to India that no mainstream leader is quite ready to renounce socialism for the C word. Even Gandhi, who godfathered the middle-class surge, fears the fallout when less fortunate voters go to the polls later this month for parliamentary elections. For the past six months, he has turned his attention to promoting vast poverty relief and local rule schemes. Still, Gandhi's advisers say that if the Prime Minister is returned to power, he will push forward with deregulation and other reforms. If Gandhi is defeated, his successor may have little choice...
Brown proclaimed a "great day for Democrats but an even better day for America." And he said, "We Democrats have taught ourselves a lot about working together and pulling for mainstream America...
...theory, PR is designed to make sure the fringe gets a voice in situations where traditional voting methods split two parties along a few mainstream issues. In Cambridge, candidates only need to receive support from one-ninth of the electorate, rather than a majority...