Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Where our community is concerned, artists were the first images that the mainstream of the country saw and so an ethos developed that you have to make your people proud," Muhammad said...
...Chong's article on immigrants (Column, Jan. 25) is riddled with inconsistencies and half-truths. She asserts that immigrants need not and cannot become part of mainstream America. According to her, learning the English language and about America's democratic government would eradicate immigrants' cultures, and thus result in a homogeneous America...
...more general statistics reveal a startling complacency with the blurring of the line between church and state and, more than that, the erasing of the line of separation so that religious influence on political life (which has always existed on the perimeters) will become a mainstream expectation. Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council may run for President. Dan Quayle has already announced that a main plank of his presidential platform will be the ever-popular--and incredibly vague--"family values." When he used that phrase in reference to "Murphy Brown" in 1992, many of us recoiled at the thought...
...history of African Americans in this country provides one counter-example: blacks have been in this country, learning English, for three and a half centuries. Still, this attempt to "enter the mainstream of American life" did not stop slavery or Jim Crow laws...
...Brown; her Golden Globe nomination this year for Shakespeare puts her back in the Oscar game; and in April, she will appear on Broadway for the first time in 40 years, starring in David Hare's Amy's View, a 1997 London hit. She has even gone mainstream--playing M in the James Bond movies...