Word: mainstreamers
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Nader has his reasons for making another try at Pennsylvania Avenue—he thinks many significant issues like military spending, labor reform, and “cracking down on corporate crime” have been largely ignored in mainstream political dialogue—but one almost feels as if he’s mainly running because he can. In an interview with The New York Times following his announcement, Nader claimed, “If there was no other reason to run—other than the civil liberties, civil rights issue of ballot access—it?...
...peak in 1973 with the album “Headhunters,” whose opener (“Chameleon”) and funk version of an earlier Hancock track (“Watermelon Man”) influenced R&B and hip hop artists for decades to come. His 1983 mainstream single, “Rockit,” won a Grammy for best R&B instrumental and several MTV Awards for its robotics-centered video. Most recently, Hancock was featured in another music video, organized by Black Eyed Peas member Will.I.Am and supporting Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Last year...
...personal, you’re selfish,” he says. “And if you do something that’s completely broad to make a lot of money, you’re generous.” Gondry cultivated the tastes that made him less appealing to mainstream critics during his residency at MIT. The Institute embodies the do-it-yourself ethic that Gondry embodies. “A lot of people are making projects here on the side that are scientific in spirit, but in execution they feel like a bunch of wires mixed together...
...very much a part of our black life here on campus,” says Christina L. Elmore ’09, who has been acting in BlackCAST shows since the fall of 2005. “But our audiences aren’t necessarily always filled with the mainstream audience.” Elmore auditioned exclusively for BlackCAST during her freshman fall, something she says has less to do with race and more to do with comfort. According to Elmore, BlackCAST is simply “a warm and welcoming place, not just for a black person...
...Pick Up Artist” fame, a number of porn stars and porn makers visited the declining Connecticut industrial town. Steven Hirsch, chairman of the adult film studio Vivid Entertainment, delivered a lecture entitled, “The Business of Pornography: How Vivid Made It Mainstream.” Hirsch’s appearance at Yale did not come without criticism. Gail Dines, a professor at Wheelock College and anti-pornography activist who spoke at Harvard this fall, said that bringing Hirsch to Yale in thiscontext was “one of the first times that a major pimp pornographer...