Word: mainstream
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...Third Way. The phrase seems to mean not simply a compromise between right and left but a synthesis of fiscal conservatism with social responsibility that can appeal across a broad middle. Schroder recognizes the idea in the rise of a like-minded international fraternity. "There's a mainstream of modern social democratic thinking, trying to find answers to the new questions arising from globalization," he says. "The main question is balance: how to modernize the society and modernize the economy and have social security--how to keep that balance...
...reachable, though she's still not necessarily listed in the phone book. At points, some songs bear a hint of panic hidden in their almost predictable musical passages, almost as if Amos frightened herself with the inaccessibility of "Pele" and is holding back to be accepted by the mainstream music scene again. But for the most part, the album stands up as listenable (think "Tori Amos Lite"), with passages that are doomed to be caught in one's head for hours at a time--which is definitely not a bad thing...
About three years ago, amid the hype over the nouveau punk radio revolution, Rancid blasted onto the mainstream modern rock scene with ...And Out Come the Wolves, a pop powerhouse that provided a Clash-esque revitalization of the rock airwaves. The rough-around-the-edges quartet wooed listeners and fans alike with its brash musicianship while roping in the critics despite the band's inescapable unoriginality. No matter how much Rancid sounded like the punks of old, though, the band undeniably impressed the masses with its raw street-rock energy and perspective. As Green Day resurrected the three-chord...
...athletes, and the hard-core fans, have been resistant to embrace the X-Games and all their cheesy mainstream marketing; these guys prefer their own cheesy marketing. The games have been rechristened from the original Extreme Games, because extreme has come to signify "desperate marketing tool." Now they gently allude to Generation X, which also means "desperate marketing tool." And even though the skateboard faithful loathe the mainstream hype, they have grudgingly accepted the event. It is, after all, the only venue where skateboarders, banned from their towns' streets, can watch their heroes sign autographs on ABC's Wide World...
...Mainstream awareness of Cuban music has been raised in other ways as well. Buena Vista Social Club (Nonesuch), an album that features American guitarist Ry Cooder jamming with Cuban musicians, won a Grammy this year and sold 250,000 copies in the U.S.; on July 1, Cooder's outfit will play Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who defected from Cuba in 1990, has a new album out titled Hot House (N2K). Cuba is also going Hollywood. In August, Columbia Pictures will release Dance with Me, a salsa-spiced love story about a Cuban immigrant (played by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne...