Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ninth week, earned $176 million in North America and (rare for a comedy) even more abroad, and won Cameron Diaz a Best Actress citation from the New York Film Critics Circle. Knocked Up could do even better, based on the rapturous reviews - the most favorable of any mainstream movie this year, according to the Rotten Tomatoes website. I wouldn't be amazed if, at the end of this year, Knocked Up were to win a few critics' awards for best film...
...distant fifth place to leader Yahoo! Mail, which is over 12 times the size of Gmail in terms of visits. Google has barely made a peep in social networking; MySpace, the #1 social networking site, is over 300 times the size of Google's Orkut service. Even mainstream information such as Google Finance is an order of magnitude smaller in visits than the industry leader in financial information Yahoo! Finance...
...Despite the remoteness of Rau’s studies from the mainstream, he insists that the study of ancient languages yields more than just insight on morphological changes over time...
...reminded me again how important protest is. Institutions like Harvard, and the eminently rational and mainstream people who run them, help rule the world. But they are bent sometimes by the moral force that bubbles up when other people have had enough with things as they are, and wish for something better (as this spring, when Harvard students went on hunger strike to raise the pay of security guards). You’re supposed to come to college and be a radical and then go off and grow up. Some of that is unavoidable and necessary...
...blasted by a number of left-wing bloggers: Klein screwed up! I had quoted Harman in the past tense-common usage for politicians who know their words will appear after a vote takes place. That was sloppy and... suspicious! Proof that you just can't trust the mainstream media. On Eschaton, a blog that specializes in media bashing, I was given the coveted "Wanker of the Day" award. Eventually, Harman got wind of this and called, unbidden, to apologize for misleading me, saying I had quoted her correctly but she had changed her mind to reflect the sentiments...