Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blues music today is in some ways what rock used to be: outside the system, neglected by mainstream radio, but beloved by a small and growing group of loyal listeners. Tigrett, 47, has long been one of them. He grew up on a plantation outside Memphis, Tennessee, where he was surrounded by such music, and he sees himself as leading the crusade to bring blues into the mainstream. "I've been into the blues ever since I was a kid," he says. "The first music that I heard, the first storytelling I ever heard, the first culture that ever entered...
...offers a melange of Southern dishes, from smothered chicken to spicy quesadillas. The performers are sometimes just as varied: such established blues acts as Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters, rockers like Bruce Springsteen, even reggae star Ziggy Marley. The Los Angeles club has developed such a hot reputation among mainstream musicians that the artist formerly known as Prince called to ask if he could perform...
...Western medicine has spent the past 100 years trying to rid itself of remnants of mysticism. Targ's own field, psychiatry, couldn't be more hostile to spirituality: Sigmund Freud dismissed religious mysticism as "infantile helplessness" and "regression to primary narcissism." Today, while Targ's experiment is not exactly mainstream, it does exemplify a shift among doctors toward the view that there may be more to health than blood-cell counts and ekgs and more to healing than pills and scalpels...
Some silent stars, like Buster Keaton, swam outside the Hollywood mainstream. Fairbanks, though, was Hollywood--in his itch for control (he produced his films and wrote most of them), in his loving to be loved, in his taste for pricey grandeur. He ordered the biggest sets (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood), the highest budgets (The Thief of Bagdad), the first epic film shot wholly in Technicolor (The Black Pirate). At times this largeness slowed the films' pace; you wait an hour for the stunts and the fun to kick...
...including America's Freemasons, members of the DeMolay and other organizations. The rich history of Freemasonry dates back to colonial America and before. Some of our Founding Fathers, including George Washington, were dedicated Freemasons. Present-day Masonic organizations exist in all 50 states and continue to be in the mainstream of all that is good about America. The unseemly use of despotic power by a powerful leader of the Roman Catholic Church can only spread seeds of disharmony and divisiveness among us all, to the detriment of our tradition of religious tolerance. LOUIS CURTH Lake Placid, New York