Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given its addiction to sensationalism, one would expect most of the mainstream media to have deliberately looked away from the significance of the auction at Sotheby's this April of part of the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
...puts it, "It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in mainstream aspirations...
...defied expectations. "But we're really not fighting hard to win this time," says Alexei Mitrofanov, a key Zhirinovsky aide. "The country isn't ready. The goal now is to grow like a cancer, to build our party at the grass roots and make Zhirinovsky more acceptable to the mainstream. Then, in five or 10 years, he could burst through...
...Correlates"; Hugh G. Eakin '96 for "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and Their Patronage"; Steven A. Engel '96 for "The Legacy of American Hegemony: A Theory of Institutional Change"; and Eliezer M. Finegold '96 for "Musika Mizrahit: From the Margins to the Mainstream...
...does Fox's record in TV news inspire much confidence. Local Fox newscasts often stress tabloid sensationalism, and Fox's best-known contribution to TV journalism is the now canceled magazine show A Current Affair. Fox News Sunday is an attempt to establish some mainstream credibility. Despite its bumpy start, the show has done that, eliciting a few newsmaking quotes in its first weeks from such guests as Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Executive producer Marty Ryan, who once ran NBC's Today Show, says the program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden...