Word: mainstreamed
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...opinions brilliantly: “Summers came to be seen as the champion of those who believe that elite American campuses are under the evil sway of a smug, leftist, feminist, multi-culti, Brie-eating, Chablis-swilling, Prius-driving professoriate that’s hopelessly out of touch with mainstream America...
...story of two cowboys struggling with their sexuality, in the 78th Annual Academy Awards, as the film won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay honors. The biggest film story of the night was that stories portraying the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender individuals broke through to attract mainstream attention and critical acclaim. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for his potrayal of an openly gay author in “Capote.” But “Brokeback,” which garnered top honors at the Golden Globes, failed to turn in an encore performance...
Canadians sometimes wonder whether Alberta is actually tethered to the rest of the country, at least temperamentally. With its right-of-mainstream attitudes and its progressive, get-it-done mentality, Wild Rose Country is looking increasingly like the wild child of the Canadian family. From their vantage point, Albertans increasingly view the rest of Canada as a crotchety, aging relative: slow moving and stuck in the past...
That a government should literally poison its citizens, and that a terrorist should be considered a hero, is a pretty nervy premise for a mainstream film. But that's dystopic fiction for you. (In his novel Winter Kills, Richard Condon posited that the brains behind the J.F.K. assassination was--Joe Kennedy!) These days, with many millions around the world seeing every evil in Bush and Cheney, a film like Vendetta is, at least, timely. And if the villains are the big guys, the hero can be a terrorist--or should we call V an insurgent...
...governments that have been declared to be complicit in genocide,” he said.The recent push for divestment comes after announcements made last month that Yale, Brown and Amherst will divest from Sudan.“The Yale divestment was a very encouraging sign that divestment has gone mainstream,” said Benjamin B. Collins ’06, one of the petition’s organizers. “But I think that Sinopec made it very clear that there needs to be more done in terms of divestment at Harvard.” The original petition...