Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential Trumans who need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. What distinguishes Pleasantville, however, is the device used to show the transformation: the slow-ripple change from black-and-white film to color. It's one of the most ingenious visual devices ever conceived for a mainstream movie, and certainly makes for one of the most inviting preview trailers in a long while...
Meanwhile, the mainstream pro-life movement gained momentum in Congress by shifting the debate to partial-birth abortion. Until then, many of us had assumed that late-term abortions were rare and unobtainable in all but the gravest circumstances. We were wrong. While it's true that most "health-of-mother" exceptions to third-trimester abortions are tragic cases, too many others are not and use health, as defined broadly by the courts to include emotional and psychological factors, to squeeze through the clinic door. And the point of viability has changed since the trimester construction of Roe v. Wade...
...kids we would have once called hippies. These kids aren't self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...
Male teens and young adults love what they're seeing. "Extreme athletes take their sports more seriously. Mainstream athletes make so much money, it's just a job for them," says Jonathon Meir, 14, of Incline Village, Nev. His friend Tyler McPherron, 14, adds that he associates football with "a bunch of old guys sitting on the couch and drinking beer." Snowboard and mountain-bike legend Shaun Palmer agrees, pointing out that individualistic extreme sports are "a lot better than going to football practice every day and having your coach yell...
Those heroes have crossed over into the mainstream. This year champion bass fisherman Denny Brauer, like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, won a place on sports marketing's greatest icon: the Wheaties box. Snowboard pioneer Jake Burton taped a widely aired American Express commercial. And champion skateboarder Andy MacDonald signed on to do a spot for the Partnership for Drug-Free America--just one week after football legend Lawrence Taylor was arrested yet again on charges of cocaine possession...