Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line publication, Icon follows in the wake of popular mainstream sites like Salon and Slate but will try to distinguish itself by becoming fully multimedia...
...about states' rights and the forgotten middle class. That was partly true; it was also a Vietnam-era class war against draft-dodging, policymaking elites. Wallace pioneered the fed-up anti-Washington line that other politicians, from Nixon to Carter to Reagan, took up and carried into the respectable mainstream. Wallace in a sense expanded American democracy rightward...
...satanic trappings and apocalyptic rants that mesmerized a huge teen audience, rock's prince of darkness has made himself over with a lighter new look--think Roswell alien goes Vegas--and a slicker sound. Mechanical Animals takes Manson away from his industrial-rock roots and moves him closer to mainstream heavy metal. Gone is the bludgeoning attack of his earlier albums; here he finds room for more melody, even some hooks. Beneath the makeup, Manson is still rock's most piercing critic--blasting, among other things, youth culture, rock music and conservatives. Manson fans, fear not: his weird new look...
...over-saturation of Zippergate stories might seem another example of what is wrong with the media elite, a group that (as conventional wisdom would have it) is too insulated from mainstream opinion. While the nation cries out for an end to the madness, the media keeps running front page stories about the scandal's ins and outs. As the media adapts to the changing ways we get our news, though, the all-important editorial independence from business concerns gets harder and more costly to sustain. So if providing us with the gossip and entertainment we like is increasingly the goal...
Somehow word of those offensive floats failed to make the mainstream. This year, the firefighters decided at the last minute to call their float, a decorated pickup truck, "Black to the Future, Broad Channel, 2098." It was intended, they said, to make the point that nearly all-white Broad Channel will, in the next hundred years, become integrated. To make that "point," such as it is, they wore Afro wigs and blackface, dribbled basketballs and threw pieces of watermelon at the crowd...