Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many non-Christians, especially Jewish Americans, find creches on public property offensive. After all, the Nativity scene underscores the theological division between Christianity and Judaism. And for atheists, the presence of the display might make them feel alienated from mainstream American life. These effects are accentuated for non-Christian children who, as the ACLU writes, "will question... [their] identification with American culture...
...designs, Saint Laurent has not always led a crowd. He raised skirts in 1959, five years too soon. He lowered them in 1964, when the mini had several years to go. For that matter, he raised hemlines again only two years ago. This had no particular resonance in the mainstream of fashion, but at the smart restaurants in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca, the prettiest girls are in minis and boots...
...Harvard is not immune to the subtle bigotries which characterize race relations elsewhere. Freshman Black tables represent an attempt to maintain a cultural identity which is different from, but in all respects equal to, that of mainstream white American society...
...have to be very good indeed to survive lyrics like "I know I was a crazy fool/ For treating you the way I did/ But something took hold of me/ And I acted like a dustbin lid." There are two collaborations with Michael Jackson, the wonder boy of mainstream soul, that sound peppy only by comparison with the rest of the record, which may be remembered as the album that asked (in Keep Under Cover) the question "What good is butter if you haven't got bread?/ What good is art when it hurts your head?" No headaches here...
...while he accepts being termed a "liberal," he said. "The issues I'm running on are not liberal issues, but mainstream issues...