Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa, militant moralism is making its way into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing a bill that makes it a crime to purchase child porn. The trickle-down theory of antiporn was in evidence when a planned fund-raising softball game south of Des Moines, featuring a group of Playboy Bunnies and Rabbits, was canceled after phone calls to the local athletic booster club protested...
...protected realm of privacy. Democrats who have long advocated federal activism note with irony that the traditional Republican principle of getting government off the back of its people has been subverted by the evangelical right, seemingly intent on transforming Big Brother into a bedroom busybody. Conservatives and many mainstream Americans, on the other hand, view the trend as a welcome response to the breakdown of sexual and family values. The reassertion of traditional moral values, they say, is part of a broad conservative realignment in the political process...
...combination of heart throbs Lowe and Moore, the comic onscreen presence of Jim Belushi as Danny's beerguzzling good-ole-boy buddy and some great Ferris Buelleresque Chicago locations is certainly sufficient to safeguard the film's mainstream appeal. But if the only image that remains after the film is that of Moore and Lowe doing the deed everywhere from in the shower to on the carpet in front of Danny's double headphone stereo system to in a bean bag chair, you missed Mamet's point about relationships...
...agreed Cuomo, must find "intelligent, fair and effective ways to help the poor help themselves." Eleanor Holmes Norton, who headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration, stressed the importance of shoring up the "family mission" within the ghettos but added that "only government can create a mainstream of high-paying jobs...
...perhaps Gonzalez's greatest achievement has been to bring Spain into the European political mainstream. Said Jean Enkaoua, special correspondent of the French daily Le Dauphine Libere: "Spanish elections are no longer the stuff of passion and risk...