Word: mainstreamers
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...cruelly sarcastic doctor on House; and the castaways of Lost, who include a heroin addict, a torturer and several killers. (Fox's Prison Break is also set among criminals, although it's about a wrongfully imprisoned man and the brother who is trying to spring him from jail.) "Mainstream audiences are now getting comfortable with the fact that there are different kinds of lead characters," says Reilly...
Catering to mainstream tastes as well as more artistic inclinations, the non-profit institution focuses on only the “highest quality films,” McClung said...
...lifestyles. Sex-segregated housing is a policy that remains in place despite our present pedagogy, in deference to a bygone regime of broader tutelage that worked well enough for centuries.In any case, there’s really no need to rely solely on tradition: Sex-segregated housing reflects mainstream American society, where young, unmarried men and women living together in close quarters is something that is frowned upon. The reasons range from an intuitive sense of decency to practical worries about discomfort and hook-ups, all of which seem contrived or “medieval” to a good...
...although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition...
...midst of middle-school hip-hop is the unique point in their repertoire. Other people have tried to develop their own sound and have tried to develop their own record label once they had a hit-record. Only the Beasties pioneered white-boys’ involvement in mainstream hip-hop. The current marketplace of rap albums carried almost entirely by the white-suburban market was introduced with the push of “License to Ill”—which they almost called Don't Be a Faggot?...