Word: mainstreamers
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...Kohn and filmed in Georgia, where Kohn teaches film, the film was written by one his students. Three months after it had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Ebert introduced Somebodies to his Overlooked audience as an affectionate film that liberates its characters from the stereotypes of most mainstream stories about black culture...
Jack Megan, director of the OFA, has high words of praise for Yu. “She is operating in a more abstract than representational mode, in a way that is quite different from the mainstream of Harvard art,” he says. Her work, he continues, is “both exceptionally fine and represents an adventure into territory we don’t often...
Right wing French politician and presidential hopeful Phillipe de Villiers was roundly denounced last week after his dubious claims that much of the workforce at Charles de Gaulle airport had become infiltrated by Islamic radicals - which, in some ways, was exactly his intention. At a time when mainstream political leaders like interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy are embracing anti-immigrant positions and xenophobic National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen finds his popularity growing, de Villiers was clearly hoping that his sensational claims would raise the profile of his Movement for France (MFF) among the country's hard right voters, which...
...Villiers strategy is that Le Pen drags Sarkozy down in 2006, before being forced to leave politics due to age," says Reyni?. "To de Villiers mind, that leaves him uncontested leader of the hard- and extreme-right, and with Sarkozy defeated as the standard-bearer of dejected mainstream conservatives." It's a long shot, of course, but de Villiers may not have any other kind...
...Nepal, the new government may have no choice but to cooperate. "The fact that the Maoists have got guns makes it all the more imperative that the new government try and deal with them," says Rhoderick Chalmers of the International Crisis Group. "They have to be brought into the mainstream." The Maoists have offered to lay down their arms as long as the planned constitutional referendum proceeds with no conditions-a demand surely to be rejected by the King, who will insist on keeping at least a ceremonial role. Even if the monarchy and the Maoists can come...