Word: mainstream
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Except for its radical fringes, environmentalism moved into the political mainstream, and so did Hayes. By the time he was 35, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the Solar Energy Research Institute in Colorado, and clean power became his passion. After finding the time to finish his law degree at Stanford in 1985, Hayes was drawn back onto the environmental front lines by groups looking forward to the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. The threat of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels had thrust the environment back into the headlines...
...stories as "Are Black People Cooler Than White People?" In Might's "Sellout issue," every page of the magazine, including the cover, was sold to a corporate sponsor and the record reviews were written by record company PR departments. When Might folded after 16 issues Eggers was courted by mainstream magazines and spent a year as editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that are impossible to categorize. The latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball" in which...
...long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake. The story of B.C.'s periodic lurches into A.D. has been brewing in conservative Christian circles for a while, but got its mainstream outing in the Easter edition of the Washington Post. The piece recounted how Hart, whose combined work on B.C. and The Wizard of Id makes him the earth's most syndicated comics author, bought some satellite dishes. The installers were evangelical Christians, and soon Hart was too. Around 1989 he began doing about five religious strips a year, usually around Christmas...
...these different directions show that dance music isn't just a fad, and that the future does hold promise; the question for me is how much any of this will catch on in the mainstream in the U.S. That Fatboy Slim is finally getting the airplay he deserves this late in his career seems to be a good sign. But it's hard to learn what quality club music is when the drinking age is so high that college students can't go clubbing on a regular basis and when places like Boston still have 2 a.m club closings...
...such a diverse clientele, Seven Stars has a multitude of more mainstream books...