Word: mainstream
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Alice L. Kirkman, public information specialist for American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says the organization strongly supported institution of the policy. "We believe that abortion training needed to get back into the mainstream of medical training," she says...
...acknowledgement of cross-dressing in the culture. A number of movies dealing explicitly with the subject have received both critical and popular acclaim. They include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mrs. Doubtfire. An upcoming Patrick Swayze vehicle, will soon join their ranks. Inexplicably, the current video by a mainstream adultcontemporary pop singer, Gloria Estefan, is a paean to the thrills of crossdressing. Consequently, increased exposure to the practice means that the traditional, instinctive reaction to many public male-to-female cross dressers, usually one of laughter coupled with spasms of revulsion, has changed to one of, if not obliviousness...
After decades of experimentation with various groups and progressive styles, both Jones and Tyner have recently emerged, ironically enough, as two of today's most popular mainstream jazz musicians. The back-to-back appearances by Jones and Tyner this month at the Regattabar in Cambridge provided an excellent opportunity to evaluate the end-product of thirty years' works outside the Coltrane umbrella...
However, much of the mainstream media, many conservative politicians and a substantial part of white America continue to coddle Murray. The media has not held Murray fully accountable for his deceit. For example, Murray and The Bell Curve are still described using mild adjectives such as `controversial' (who can imagine neo-Nazi skinheads being referred to as merely controversial?). At worst, Murray is seen as a scholar who got carried away with his work and ended up outside the mainstream of conventional scientific thought...
...brief review of Ms. Streisand's speech reveals several prominent flaws. The first is her contention that freedom of expression is crucial to the future of American democracy. As she states, "To force us to conform to some rigid notion of mainstream American values is to weaken the very foundation of American democracy...