Word: mainstream
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...personality [of Adams House] has been sustained over the years in a sense that the House is based on open-mindedness and a resistance to conformity," Kiely says. "We take pride in not going with the mainstream...
...audience intones. Since 1988, when Congress opened the way for Indian reservations to set up full-scale gambling, casinos have moved from being the private preserve of two states--Nevada and New Jersey--into the American mainstream. With 126 Native American tribes reaping profits from gaming, commercial companies argued for equal rights. So far, 24 states have legalized casinos, while 37 have embraced lotteries, lured by the prospect of easy money in hard fiscal times. And the games have begun to crossbreed: lottery agencies have added instant-cash video poker and keno games, racetracks have expanded into off-track betting...
MOVIES AND TV HAVE FINALLY DISCOVered that gays and lesbians are more than stereotypes and punch lines--although there is progress yet to be made. It's just proof that Pat Buchanan and his extremist cronies are profoundly out of touch with mainstream America. The world is changing, and it's leaving Buchanan, Limbaugh and the rest of the radical right behind in the past. SCOTT MILLER St. Louis, Missouri
Some laypeople (like me, for example) have trouble seeing the difference between these two views--between saying consciousness doesn't exist and saying it is nothing more than the brain. In any event, both versions of strict materialism put a damper on cosmic speculation. As strict materialism became more mainstream, many philosophers talked as if the mind-body problem was no great problem. Consciousness became almost passe...
Okay, so this is the first year of the Crimson Oscar preview, and what happens? A small Australian film about a pig, and a small Italian film about a letter carrier are nominated for best picture. Most of the nominations are for non-mainstream films. Several high-profile films did not receive major nominations (e.g., "Get Shorty," "The American President;" except for best-female actor nominations, "Casino" and "Bridges of Madison County" were ignored). All five director and all ten supporting-actor/female actor candidates are first-time nominees. In recent years, the Academy Awards have been dominated...