Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Isaac. Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter for A Few Good Men and The American President, created Sports Night and is among its executive producers. Like a number of emigre writers from the movies now working in TV, Sorkin brings a fresh approach to the medium, even if his sensibility is mainstream. Another executive producer is Thomas Schlamme, who directed episodes of The Larry Sanders Show and so has some experience with unconventional TV comedies about...
...despite that sense of camaraderie, memberssaid they suspect some students wrongly picturemale singers as beyond the mainstream...
...destroyed man and then "Howl, Howl, Howl!" Philip Roth's most recent books have been about majestic unravelings, a surprisingly soothing theme in the 1990s. The way Roth patiently describes the desperation of his leading men has given mainstream American literature a respectable manliness. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, a high school golden-boy grows up to a life made miserable by Vietnam politics and 1970s economics, and in the National Book Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described...
...Democrats fought with moderate politics and mainstream message against right-wing Republicans," said Joseph N. Sanberg '01, vice president of the Massachusetts College Democrats...
...their way to opt out, students are helping to fund abortions. I share his annoyance at this situation. People should not be permitted to opt out of helping to pay for abortions, or any other legal procedure. Should Jehovah's Witnesses who enjoy the benefits of belonging to mainstream health care organizations, but who object to the practice of blood transfusions, be given the opportunity to determine what their share would be of the annual cost of that procedure, and elect not to pay it? Should People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals members be able to determine their share...