Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purpose of the two sides, the one theoretical, the other practical, seem on the surface to align perfectly. But in fact, Schauer's rationale for the debate applied to a different set of panelists, namely the mainstream media. What the K-School crowd wanted to know was why it is that tabloid journalism has become legitimate--legitimate enough to hold a forum on it at the Kennedy School of Government. And the answers from the tabloidists present was that tabloidism is legitimate because it has been absorbed into the mainstream, and Steve Coz was sitting there to prove...
Meier, who has since moved on to start a school in Boston, has had her mainstream critics. But she put up numbers that were astonishing, given the secondary school's impoverished surroundings: 90% of the graduates went on to college, some of them to Ivy League schools...
...been more, and still more, gayness. Predictably, that has resulted in more controversy. Vice President Al Gore praised Ellen last week, saying it had forced Americans "to look at sexual orientation in a more open light." The Christian Coalition immediately responded by saying Gore was "way out of the mainstream." Meanwhile, the dominance of the gay theme seems to have created friction between ABC and DeGeneres. She publicly threatened to quit the show, which has had solid ratings, after the network ran a parental advisory before a recent episode in which Ellen jokingly kissed a straight female friend...
...recent years, the distinct art forms of "poetry slamming" and "spoken-word" have moved out of coffee houses and into the mainstream, heralding a convergence of poetry with performance. Unfortunately, those who explore poetry through visual media always run the risk of yielding a result at odds with the poem's intended message; or, even worse, one that reflects badly on the poem itself. A casual viewing of the films exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts October 16 program, "Poetry on Film and in Performance," indicated that a fine line still exists in the video arts world between visualizing...
...have only featured these three short films for one evening (in most cases with live presentations by the artists themselves), but the indication was clear: spoken-word, poetry slamming and video-art are fast making their way into the art-world's equivalent of mainstream culture. Unfortunately, though, the performance also offered a warning about the complexities of adapting literature into a visual medium...