Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ginsberg was one of the founding members of the "Beat Generation" of poets who rejected mainstream values and sought a "beatific vision" through sex, drugs or meditation...
...truck brands by updating Sloan's book of marketing. Sloan demanded distinctly different styles for almost every demographic position and taste, a strategy that eventually gave way to identical cars bearing different nameplates. But segmentation is back in vogue, and for GM that means re-emphasizing traditional middle-American, mainstream strengths at Chevrolet while almost totally overhauling the customer base and appeal at Oldsmobile. Image makers at Olds are seeking to shed the stodgy, budget-priced profile that appealed to older buyers (the average age of its Ciera sedan buyers crested at a silvery 68--it was your father...
...Long So Wrong ought to be Krauss's sellout album--the one where she signs with a big label, paddles in the pop mainstream, does a Streisand duet, maybe has a few cuts produced by Babyface. But Krauss is a constant lass: she's been with Union Station and Rounder Records since she was a 14-year-old fiddle phenom (she's now 25). The new set has no guest shots or power-pop charts. It's just 48 minutes of beautiful music...
David's views, which he describes as outside of the political mainstream, were not particularly popular with the faculty upon his arrival...
Neither Dave Barry nor Erma Bombeck could get away with admitting that "someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels." Few others besides Sedaris dare to describe the sexual fantasies of quadriplegic felons. Even his more mainstream interest in describing his first gay experience is complicated by a brave look at masturbation: "Our love had the power to move beds...