Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their way to show unusual movies are the Nickelodeon in Boston (600 Commonwealth Ave.) and Coolidge Corner in Brookline (290 Harvard St.), both on modeled and expanded, and it offers a good selection of foreign, offbeat, underground, and gay films. The Coolidge Corner is a little more mainstream, tending towards interesting revivals...
...pregnancy in young girls. A strong advocate of the ERA, Ferraro has focused on women's economic needs: a bill she co-sponsored liberalizing pensions, especially for women, was passed in the House last week. Says New York Mayor Ed Koch: "She's part of the Democratic mainstream...
Ferraro's journey to the mainstream was anything but routine. Born in Newburgh, N.Y., she was doted on by her Italian immigrant father, a prosperous restaurateur. During her first year he celebrated her birthday every month, lavishing dolls and frilly dresses on the little girl. When he died of a heart attack, Ferraro, then eight, was devastated. She was gravely ill with anemia for a year. Facing reduced circumstances, her mother Antonetta moved Geraldine and her brother Carl (now with New York City's human resources administration) to the South Bronx and took a job in the garment...
...Other students take Ec 10 for different reasons, and spreading out those few would dilute the questioners without really changing the other sections," Banuri said, adding that distributing the students from the three radical sections among the 32 mainstream sections would add only three students to each...
...knows. But should older woman/younger man relationships leave their faddish status and enter into mainstream respectability, the social impact would be enormous: The institutions of marriage and the family would have to be restructured; standards for both feminine and masculine attractiveness would be broadened; and the pool of available men would remain (theoretically) constant for aging women instead of shrinking, as it does under conventional circumstances...