Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hurling, flatulence, jiggling breasts, the odd vibrator joke--all the elegant elements we've come to cherish in what is now, let's face it, the mainstream of American movie comedy--are present in BASEketball. So, of course, are the young TV masters of gross-out, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, being mentored through their major--all right, maybe we're stretching a point here--motion-picture debut by one of the genre's old masters, David Zucker, auteur of Airplane! and the Naked Gun epics...
TRANSGENDER GOES MAINSTREAM...
...believe that she is beginning to sell out, this is an accusation that many of her more long-time and devoted fans don't want to make quite yet. Perhaps she is only steering slightly in an unexplored direction rather than taking the plunge full-force into the mainstream. The concert was disappointing in many ways, but the sheer volume of the songs still felt like a nice energy release for music that has so much emotion swirling inside of it. In addition, the gargantuousness of the Fleet Center prevented a good 75 percent of the audience from having...
With Charlton Heston as its newly elected president [SPECIAL REPORT, July 6], the National Rifle Association hopes to appeal to mainstream America. The plan may backfire. Even an actor who has portrayed Moses can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. And though Heston's celebrity attracts media attention, the hateful sentiments conveyed by that golden voice will more likely guarantee a continuing decline in N.R.A. membership. Heston's outspoken and controversial reflections may win the applause of the right wing, but his inflammatory rhetoric is repugnant to most Americans, including real sportsmen. KATHLEEN GREGG Pearl...
Fingerprint recognition has long been used in high-security places like FBI headquarters, but only now is it finding a place in the mainstream. In August, Compaq will offer a fingerprint-recognition system to its corporate customers. Its $99 Fingerprint Identification Technology requires users to place a fingertip on a miniature scanner attached to their monitor. Once the image has been verified with a master print on file, users can access the company network without having to remember an ever-changing password...