Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have now become basically part of the mainstream Democratic position," he said...
...Guinier is playing up a new image. And it's working. People are starting to see her as progressive, upbeat, and mainstream. Instead of conveying distrust, Guinier now calls up the optimistic belief that America can get past the "poison of racism" with the right reforms. This Lani Guinier ends her new book with a plea for racial healing, public dialogue, positive-sum solutions, moving the country forward, and further progress "towards Martin Luther King's vision of a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin...
...suffered the usual torments of the underground poet moving into the mainstream, and was worried that his band had sold out, that it was attracting - the wrong kind of fans (e.g., the guys who used to beat him up). True, he liked the money that went with mall-rat adulation. But in interviews he exuded a pain beyond standard-issue superstar whining. He said his heroin use was a kind of self-medication for stomach pains, but what he really seemed in search of was psychic equilibrium...
Collins, who oversaw this week's story on Kurt Cobain's suicide, has been especially fascinated by mainstream media's warm embrace of alternative culture. "In some ways, the story of Kurt Cobain reflects the amazing workings of the music industry, in which the songs of a brilliant, provincial musician are suddenly made available to millions," he says. "Inevitably, though, that process changes the work an artist produces, and in Cobain's case, it contributed to his destruction...
Guinier criticized conservatives and the media for twisting her law writings, using them to describe her ideas as leftist and out of the mainstream. Members of the Administration asked her to remain silent during the confirmation proceedings, she said...