Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present, mainstream scientists universally agree. Which, of course, is why Seed has stirred up such a fuss. How do we as a society really feel about cloning humans? Will opposition really evaporate--as Seed insists it will--the minute the public beholds "half a dozen bouncing-baby, happy, smiling clones"? Seed has succeeded in forcing a national debate on the issue, but it seems increasingly unlikely that he will be the one to put it to the test...
...State. Even those who take their fashion tips from PBS are joining on: when LL Cool J appeared on the Charlie Rose Show wearing a FUBU T shirt, the company received phone calls the next day from viewers asking where they could buy one. And the best barometers of mainstream America, Japanese junior high students, are buying the look almost exclusively, dragging their wide-bottom jeans through the streets of Kyoto and Tokyo. Phat Farm, the cartoonishly rural-themed stores selling the hip-hop label started by Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, says one-third...
...NuSouth partners see themselves as taking on giants like Polo and Tommy Hilfiger. They object to the way those mainstream manufacturers are, in their view, "pimping" urban culture. "A $25 Hilfiger T shirt means nothing," challenges Evans, who, like Quintero, is black. "This is an empowering message for us, by us and about...
DIED. OWEN BRADLEY, 82, country-music impresario and creator of the "Nashville sound," which helped push the genre into the mainstream; in Nashville, Tenn. In 1955 Bradley opened the first recording studio in Nashville, where he later crafted some of country music's most enduring tunes, including I Fall to Pieces with Patsy Cline and Coal Miner's Daughter with Loretta Lynn...
...this," demands a new Winston Cigarettes ad. Smell This is the unsubtle brand name of a new fragrance. Taste This, urges Ellen DeGeneres' latest CD. Rock This! insists Chris Rock's recent tome. So what gives? It's part of the continuing evolution of louche street slang into the mainstream. And, if you buy this, consumers just like to be told what...