Word: mainstream
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...director Iain Softley of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove. Ring one up for the classic literary under-statement of the year. The notoriously dense late-Jamesian style, elliptical dialogue, and near-obsessive concentration on internal thoughts and consciousness guarantee an uphill battle in achieving upper-end-mainstream/borderline elite moviegoer appeal. Softley and screen-writer Hossein Amini have succeeded in crafting an intensely physical adaptation that takes enough sweeping liberties and simplifications to make James scholars cringe or shrug, but retains sufficient subtlety and sensitivity to be dramatically compelling...
...diversity of J. Mascis' audience is any indication of his mainstream appeal, then perhaps grunge hasn't died the torturous death that its critics all seem to lament. If Mascis' music possesses any one quality, in fact, it is staying power: after 13 albums, (the first in 1985 with bassist Lou Barlow, who departed to create Sebadoh) he still gets the same screamed requests for the same four or five songs every set he plays. Although it must be a huge responsibility to be credited as one of the fathers of alternative rock, Mascis manages to keep churning...
...same time, they've retained that nostalgia for the music of desperation that eased their hormone-riddled inductions into adulthood. Dinosaur Jr., for their part, have matured as well, diversifying their musical efforts while keeping their guitar-emphasis rock just far enough out of the mainstream to remain interesting. Although their audience's "Kurt Cobain is alive" T-shirts now read "Save BU football" instead, the bodies themselves are the same--and their enthusiasm for the music of their tortured adolescence probably won't allow grunge to take its last dying breath just...
...Vietnam War era as "the long-hair guy" for his work lobbying public schools to let students with shoulder-length hair attend class. He has long given money to the A.C.L.U. and the N.A.A.C.P., and still does, he says. But Cohen says he parted ways with the civil rights mainstream because he wants to see diversity achieved through better outreach programs and other approaches that don't rely on different standards for whites and minorities. So far, however, affirmative action's critics have been more successful challenging diversity programs that don't meet with their approval than developing effective ones...
Tuesday morning, the first day of the fall, the sun had no warmth. GMA wanted me at Wall and Broad, the mainstream media now covering this sell-off from ground zero. Walking up Wall from my office at the corner of Wall and Water, I was set upon by reporters. Had they waited all night for me? Or did it have something to do with the fact that I was the only one there save for the vendor who sells coffee and bagels. Yet when the paratrooping reporters chute into Wall Street, it smells more like a bottom than...