Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironic that members of a religious group that has long sought inclusion both at Harvard and in society at large would voluntarily remove themselves from the mainstream of campus life. Unfortunately, the development adds to a disturbing trend in which many American Jews define their lives solely within the Jewish community...
...most recent exhibition. "Present Works" features visiting artists in the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Among those whose works are on exhibit include Priscilla Smith Bracket, with "A Different Vision: Landscape Painting", Barbara Elam-Dimock, with "Interiors of the Northeast". Lynn M. Randolph with "A Return to Alien Roots. Painting Outside Mainstream Western Culture, and Anne Seelback with "Industrial Relics." The Bunting Artists Show is open daily at the Institute Gallery from...
...ground almost weekly: pushing the boundaries of permissible language and subject matter, rejuvenating political satire, breaking the "fourth wall" to make fun of the TV medium itself. It helped launch or boost the careers of comics like Steve Martin and Andy Kaufman, gave avant-garde rock an outlet on mainstream TV and made the world safe for David Letterman...
...those days, SNL writers would sometimes reject comic ideas with the put- down "That's Carol Burnett." It was their code language for material that was too broad, too mainstream. Saturday Night Live may not quite have become the Carol Burnett Show of the '80s, but complacency has crept in. Perhaps it was inevitable. TV anniversaries, after all, serve another important function. They remind us that shows grow...
...fashion and advertising industries -- and brightening them considerably. The blond, blue-eyed ideal is out, diversity is in, and the concept of beauty is growing as wide as the world. The new cast of faces is appearing not only in ads aimed at specific ethnic groups but in mainstream advertising as well. Revlon's Most Unforgettable Woman of 1989, chosen in a search across the U.S., is Mary Xinh Nguyen, a 20-year-old Vietnamese American from California. Such companies as Du Pont, Citibank and Delta Air Lines have populated current ads with a rich variety of blacks, Asians...