Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard student may choose tactfully omit a pronoun to avoid revealing the gender of a lover. A Harvard queer knows when and how to pass as straight--we know what to say, how to smile and how to dress. We can slip in and out from subculture to mainstream and back again because we want to be in that sorority or that Finals Club. We sacrifice radical politics for a grade, a degree, a fellowship or a career...
...indeed a Harvard student. I am ambitious, driven and all too eager to achieve mainstream success. Such an attitude is widespread here--and especially disturbing among queers. To be frank, I believe that Harvard queers--like myself--lose sight of the lesbian and gay movement when thinking about personal success. But I do not have the luxury of the closet anymore. I can no longer write a resume that does not shout out lesbian. I am marked for life...
...business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller and many other authors who had struggled to find an outlet with mainstream houses. Although he proudly claimed he had never given an advance of more than $10,000, he regularly lent money to writers who had fallen on hard times. Laughlin was a pioneer in the world of sport, founding Alta, a ski area in Utah beloved for its light powder...
...thanks to the emergence of home-theater systems, the battle is becoming even more one-sided. Once the exclusive toys of videophiles, home-theater components, which can transform a family room into a personal multiplex, are fast becoming an affordable, mainstream entertainment option. According to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Association, more than 15 million U.S. households enjoy the big pictures and booming Surround Sound that come with a wide-screen, 25-to-65-in. TV, an audio-video receiver, a front and rear set of speakers, hi-fi VCR and a LaserDisc or DVD player. Less than a decade...
Sean Combs, aka "Puff Daddy," has many talents, one of which is not performing. While Puffy--at 26, a successful CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment who has produced songs for a wide range of musicians from Sting to Mariah Carey--is arguably the most powerful force in the mainstream rap music industry nowadays, he lacks the ability to display his personal musical talents...