Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vaudeville to the eve of the age of music videos, the white- owned Apollo nurtured black music. When the Beatles, on their first visit to the U.S., were asked what they wanted to see, No. 1 on their list was the Apollo. But after blacks broke into the mainstream and could play larger houses for larger fees, the Apollo declined. In 1976 it closed and lapsed into the realm of remembrance, like vaudeville at the Palace or P.T. Barnum's extravaganzas at the Hippodrome. Now it has been opened again by black businessmen, led by former Manhattan Borough President Percy...
...winning crooners were wearing their best show-biz smiles. But the more common expression on Nashville's Music Row these days is a long face. Only five years ago, country's popularity was growing dramatically, thanks in part to the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. But when the fickle mainstream audience abruptly lost its fascination with the Texas two-step, sales turned sour. While total record-company sales have grown 13% since 1980, to $4.3 billion last year, country-music revenues have dropped 6%, to $430 million...
...month ago, big (6 ft. 2 in.), bluff William Bennett looked upon his early works as Secretary of Education and declared them good. "I have more affinity with the views of the American people than do most of my academic colleagues," he announced. "I think I am in the mainstream of American thinking...
...then it is a turbulent mainstream, and at times Bennett has seemed in need of a pilot. Since taking office Feb. 6, he has been a forceful exponent of quality and responsibility in education. His style, however, has been politically maladroit, offending educators and laymen alike, while threatening their pocketbooks. The new Secretary has come down hard for the Administration's plan to cut about $2.3 billion from student loans, grants and other higher-education aid for fiscal 1986. This, he said, might "require for some students divestiture of certain sorts--stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach...
...left and a writer simultaneously." Swanson declares, though with a slight suggestion that he'd give up the last label before the first and as for the journalist-asimpartial-observer argument, he'll hear none of it. "If journalist means a kind of mainstream person who doesn't take a stand on the issues, then I'm not a journalist," Swanson avows in an obviously oft-repeated, and only slightly defensive, response. Stressing the distinction between "neutrality and truth," Swanson contends his political views do not impair him from accurately reporting what he sees...