Word: mainstream
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Remaking the show for a mainstream American viewership will be a challenge. Absolutely Fabulous is so appealing because it is as trenchantly sophisticated as it is hilariously base; American sitcoms are rarely allowed to be either. Edina and her pal Patsy, played by former James Bond vixen Joanna Lumley, make endless media references to people like New Yorker editor Tina Brown, legendary Vogue fashion director Grace Coddington and satirist Will Self, whom Edina hires in one of the final shows to write an acceptance speech for a public-relations award she has little chance of receiving...
...very conciliatory and did his best tostay in the middle, stay in the mainstream," Alisays...
...intense struggle rages in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing--a fight to define exactly what transpired on April 19. Our nation's leaders and our mainstream media have essentially construed the bombing as a frontal assault on the idea of America, a sort of sharp uppercut at the nerve center of our nation. At the same time, however, a 'revisionist school' has emerged, dedicated to stripping away layers of myth and metaphor and understanding the bombing in the context of a series of tragic events, foremost among them, the FBI raid on the Waco compound two years prior...
...best way, perhaps, to gauge the 'mainstream' reaction to Oklahoma is to consider the anti-terrorism bill that on Tuesday passed the Senate in a unanimous 90-0 vote, The bill--originally proposed by the Clinton administration in 1993 in the aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing--calls for the hiring of 1,500 new federal agents, the amending of the privacy act in order to allow for more widespread use of electronic surveillance and the changing of immigration law in order to expedite the deportation of aliens suspected of terrorist involvement...
...mistake to dismiss the concerns of the militias as paranoid. The mainstream media are so viscerally liberal that they do not understand the low esteem in which they are held by the people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court, activist federal judges and TIME all have a share in creating an environment in which the productive citizens of this country feel they have been forgotten by the government that is supposed to serve them...