Word: mainstreamed
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...better version of Hollywood. Occasionally oppositional, consistently satisfying, and always well put-together, Miramax’s marquee Oscar-bait productions at the very least saved us from the ’80s, in which the only films that could classify as “good” mainstream movies were overblown, revisionist historical epics like “Out of Africa.” And though their films have gotten less impressive (“Cold Mountain,” “Proof”), they at least started something, and now other companies are doing it better?...
Despite having widened his target demographic, Flynn insists that the festival is still “first and foremost catered to Irish and Irish-American consumers” as a way to celebrate Irish culture and accomplishments. He also lists more discerning viewers with a taste for non-mainstream, art-house movies as a secondary audience...
...ones that segregated the races. Most of all we, and not our enlightened European brethren, are the violent and the crude. Reality, however, even long-suppressed and denied reality, has a nasty habit of rearing its head. As we have all been told by the Associated Press and other mainstream media, the mayhem that swept through neglected and impoverished neighborhoods with large African and Arab communities has been building for decades. Although this is accepted wisdom now, had one suggested the possibility of such an enormous outburst of violence a month ago, he would have been labeled a fool...
...This year, the Democrats’ Exhibit A is the six Iraq War veterans running for Congress as Democrats. (The Republicans managed to field only one Iraq vet.) Not all of these candidates are anti-war, but all are solidly within the Democratic mainstream in the way they talk about foreign policy, and all are outspokenly critical of George W. Bush’s handling...
Indeed, after the upbeat jazz of SJE, it seemed almost unfair that THUD served as dessert, since the musical appreciation required for the less mainstream THUD is so different...