Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world like Billie Holiday, but, of course, she's not. Her name is Madeleine Peyroux. She is a 22-year-old American ex-expatriate who had been living in Paris, singing in the streets for money, but recently returned to the U.S. to pursue a more mainstream singing career. Her debut album, Dreamland (Atlantic), just out, is a bewitching blend of jazz, folk and blues--as well as the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year. Peyroux's days of needing to play in the streets for cash are probably over...
Seale said he plans to make a $25 million movie about the history of the Black Panthers to counter what he called the myths that were presented in the recent mainstream movie "Panther...
While Stowe admits to having less experience than his mainstream opponents Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Republican Governor William F. Weld '66, he is not a complete stranger to the political arena...
Likewise, Stowe cites the women's suffrage movement as an instance when a non-mainstream party was successful in gaining for women the right to vote...
This new structure of public housing would "put poor people in the mainstream," Oliver said...