Word: mainstreamers
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...This column started about five years ago when comix and graphic novels were just barely beginning to get serious attention from the mainstream press. My goal was to introduce the more general readership of Time's website to the unique, mostly unheralded possibilities of storytelling that I knew the comix form had to offer. My philosophy for the column has always been to offer supportive reviews of books that I found interesting. There seemed little point in telling a comix-averse audience not to read comix. The perfect TIME.comix review would be a brief guide to how to appreciate...
...rise of secularism isn’t remarked upon in the mainstream media, which prefers mega-church scaremongering (evangelicals are coming to get you!), or condescending articles on virginity balls and the like. So why does the growing secular minority feel besieged by the shrinking religious majority...
...Indeed, evangelicals have for years defined themselves in large part by their insistence that every word in the Bible is true - no matter how strongly science may suggest otherwise, according to Dr. Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists and one of Mohler's sharpest critics. "I wrestle with Al Mohler all the time; he is one of the key leaders of the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention," Prescott said. "But I think this might be the first chink in any of these leaders' armor. At least it suggests that they are trying to reconcile science...
...More recently, Rolling Stone’s February 2007 “Guitar Gods” issue heralded a recognition of the blues in the mainstream press, if not in the mainstream public. John Mayer is described as a “blues preacher”—for the evidential purposes
...character—Jim Hanson—is anything but a thriller of a man. A caring husband and loving father of two charming daughters, Jim embodies—as McMahon describes in a phone interview with the Crimson—a “middle-American mainstream lifestyle.” “Premonition” tells the story of a family’s picture-perfect life, until the day Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) drops her daughters off at school and comes home to find her husband has been killed in a car crash. Even more shocking...