Word: mainstream
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...what I’m saying is out of the mainstream which I recognize,” White said. “That’s one of my goals—to be a little bit out of the mainstream and to challenge assumptions and conventional wisdom underlying the purpose of corporations and the legal standing of corporations...
...With Netanyahu's settlement-freeze defiance having demonstrated the limits of the Administration's ability to sway the Israeli government, Obama now faces the uncomfortable reality that this has also accelerated the decline of U.S. influence with the Arab states and mainstream Palestinian moderates. Having made resolving the Middle East's most intractable conflict a top foreign policy priority, the Administration now needs the symbolic resumption of talks simply to signal progress. The message from the White House to both sides over the past week has emphasized the urgency of doing that. Unfortunately, given the gulf between the demands...
...Christmas songs as interpreted by Bing Crosby and his fellow crooners were folk music. These new versions of such pop classics as "Silver Bells" and "The Christmas Song" may alternate between croaks and moos, but they're reminders that a Christmas LP was a rite of passage into the mainstream for early rockers like Elvis Presley and Phil Spector. Dylan, who is donating all his royalties to Feeding America and other antihunger initiatives, just waited till his 50th year as a professional troubadour to pay his obeisance to these finely crafted kitsch touchstones...
...version of Genesis, which formed the basis for the book Bible: Eden, by Scott Hampton and Keith Giffen. There's a Manga Bible and one illustrated by renowned Mad magazine cartoonists Basil Wolverton. But perhaps because of the strange alchemy of the pairing, Crumb's Genesis has attracted more mainstream media attention than most graphic novels or reissued books of the Bible normally do, with an excerpt in the New Yorker and reviews in many daily papers and weekly magazines. The official religious press took little notice, although it did get a gushy review in the Jewish Daily Forward...
...crazy or outside the mainstream," says David Chavern, the Chamber's COO. "We've been around for almost 100 years because we've done pretty good at figuring out what's needed for the business community to be successful and we are going to be around for another 100 years." (See the top 10 bankruptcies...