Word: mainstream
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...going after the institutional hypocrisies that force it underground while leaving far more damaging practices, like the abuse of migrant workers, to fester openly. What ties Reefer Madness together is Schlosser's passionate belief that America is deeply neurotic, a nation divided against itself into a sunny, whitewashed mainstream and a lusty, angry, deeply denied subconscious. He just might be the shrink America needs. His next book will take on the prison system, and it will complete what amounts to a three-volume history of the underbelly of late--20th century America. "In 1970 the prison population was just...
...This isn’t a liberal or conservative issue. Environmental law is a mainstream and critical field that is tied to everything from corporate mergers to civil rights,” said Giovinazzo...
...departments in New York and Colorado have been monitoring the activities of peacenik demonstrators, and only recently ended those programs under outside legal pressure. How long will it be before the FBI turns its eyes towards other groups unpopular with the incumbent administration? Under a future liberal president, could mainstream anti-abortion organizations find themselves investigated for ties to abortion clinic bombers...
...Mental instability obviously helps explain several of the immolations. But what about Adamec and Másl? Josef Broz, co-author of a 1999 political manifesto that called on mainstream political leaders to resign in favor of politicians untainted by the past, argues that the Feb. 28 election of Václav Klaus as President was "symbolically behind" Adamec's death. A former Finance Minister and two-time Prime Minister, Klaus was elected six days before Adamec died and many see his victory as a triumph of the robber-baron capitalism that so disgusted Adamec. Zdenka Kmuníckov...
...band members eventually agreed to a contract with Warner Brothers Records, which arranged to re-release Breakdown with increased support from radio and MTV. With the label behind them, the group left behind small Vancouver clubs to play alongside the likes of mainstream superstars No Doubt and indie heavyweights the Shins...