Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joining an ethnic organization, I'mconsigning myself to mainstream American culture,"says Gottlieb, who describes himself as lookingmore "Western" than Chinese. "I don't have verymany friends who are Chinese... The Chinese groupson campus do tend to stick together, and so in asense, I have had to make a choice...
Reed got this far by refocusing the Coalition on more than its basic agenda of support for school prayer and opposition to abortion. It now works hand in hand with the congressional Republican leaders and defines its purpose loosely as "pro-family," which encompasses such mainstream issues as deregulation and welfare reform. Acting then as a team player for the Republican Party, the Coalition poured more than $1 million into the effort to pass the Contract with America, including $250,000 for advertising, direct mail and phone-bank work on behalf of the balanced-budget amendment -- not generally considered...
...contributed to the poisonous rhetoric spewed by violent extremists like those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. "We must forsake violence of the fist, the tongue and the heart," he said last week, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. "The Christian Coalition provides an avenue to bring alienated citizens into mainstream political action. Were we not here, the ranks of the disaffected would be much larger." He adds correctly that the Coalition, despite its conservative agenda, does not coordinate with the National Rifle Association, nor does it lobby on gun issues. Nevertheless, at the grass-roots level, there is a large...
...Gramm and Pat Buchanan. None work for Bill Clinton. Democrats are concerned the Coalition may be eating into their dwindling base. Voters are looking for more morality in their politics, and the Coalition is providing it. "Thanks in great part to people like Ralph Reed, they have become a mainstream constituency," said Democratic consultant Mark McKinnon, who is based in Austin, Texas. "I have been advising my clients that we get ourselves in a lot of trouble by attacking the religious right. Instead of inciting them, we ought to try to co-opt them. We need to show we have...
...that noted protector of civil liberties, Chairman Mao -- were a confused blend of boys' club and militia. Their gun battles with police were macho street theater run amuck. And their thug posture, as later adopted by drug gangs and rap artists, further isolated the black male from the American mainstream. In the film, though, iconography tells the story. The Panthers are young and handsome; virtually all whites are old and fat, decadent crypt keepers of a corrupt culture...