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Despite the book’s subtitle, though, Ozment insists that A Mighty Fortress is not a book about the masses or a people’s history. Rather he hopes that the book will recover the mainstream German history that has been lost in a post-war world...
...feature-length debut with 1983’s underappreciated The Hunger, giving world-wide audiences the distinct pleasures of an extraordinarily well-cast David Bowie as an emaciated vampire and a steamy love scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. Since then, Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Now, he is reunited with Crimson Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony). Pita is kidnapped...
...both American history and literature, interracial friendships seem to “occur in some sort of a frontier space, whether in the wilderness, a whaling ship or a river raft in the nineteenth century”—an area outside of mainstream society that allows people to “live subversively,” Stauffer said...
...increasingly emphasizing the importance of their diets in the pursuit of a perfect body. “I think a lot of guys watch what they eat more these days,” says Herbert. He also notes that dieting, a historically female fad, is now very mainstream for males...
...impossible battle. Don’t look for their graduates to enter into academia—its terribly unlikely that any PHC undergrad will have much luck in getting into an elite Ph.D. program. (On the other hand, it’s possible to spot B.A.s from the more mainstream Hillsdale College in respectable professors’ academic histories from time to time.) Whatever inroads have been made, it’s unlikely that the monopoly on knowledge that Harvard, Yale and the other Ivies retain will ever slough off to schools with such bias...