Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although--as rap godfather Grandmaster Flash pointed out in a recent adulatory Phoenix feature, the genre may have already passed its peak--the unwashed masses getting funkmatized. It seems inevitable that rap music will be sucked into the mainstream, just as have fringe musical elements in the past...
Your article on disease control was fascinating, and your depiction of the AIDS crisis sensitively written. More frightening than the disease are the attitudes of some people in the mainstream of society. Comments like those of the Rev. Greg Dixon, who warns that America will be destroyed if homosexuals are not stopped, present a greater threat to us than any infection from a virus or organism...
...White House publicly rejected the message from San Antonio. Faith Ryan Whittlesey, Assistant to the President for public liaison, said the N.W.P.C. is "clearly not in the American mainstream." Whittlesey argued that the Administration's gains on the economy are especially beneficial to women. She wondered, not without reason, "why the Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff...
...Once classes begin, administrators work with the registrar to relocate classes if a course a disabled student wishes to take meets in a nonaccessible building. "The University's policy is to provide what's needed," Randolph says, adding that Harvard's policy is to keep disabled students in the mainstream and make sure they are not isolated from undergraduate life. Last year, the University, after an apparent oversight, added special ramps and seating to Harvard Stadium and this summer is making Leverett House wheel chair-accessible...
...tell the story of a first-generation American, who like many of his ilk would undergo any contortion in order to join the national mainstream, Woody Allen (who plays Zelig) has chosen a form that is utterly original in conception and exhilarating in execution. It is a parody of a television documentary, one of those compilations of old newsreels, scratchy recordings and animated stills held together by a voice-over narration. This material is supported by modern interviews, shot in jarring color, in which aged witnesses (among them Mia Farrow, who plays his psychiatric savior) testify about Zelig...