Word: mainstreamers
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...neck shapes, are sold for an average of $20. Plain socks run around $10, and unisex jeans (that only anorexic 12-year-olds can wear) are upwards of $70. Despite its higher prices, American Apparel’s concept has worked. The brand has become increasingly popular and mainstream, and some of its original hipster fans are loathe to hear its now-ubiquitous name.With the U.S. economy tanking and a worldwide recession pending, it’s debatable as to whether or not Am Ap can maintain its position and push on with business as usual. The reason for this...
...speak to the superficial images of violence that fully constitute Palestine in the minds of many Americans. The festival’s organizers sought to counteract what they see as a one-sided portrayal of Palestinians in news media. “The Palestinian narrative is missing from the mainstream here in the USA, where all we get is second-hand processed images whose purpose is to dehumanize Palestinians. We hoped to present an alternative,” Ayyash said. “We are inundated with information about the Middle East and especially Palestine and the Palestinians, but most...
...only digital media player walking the streets, nor was it the first, but no one has been able to match its ubiquity.But as Apple’s control of the music player industry got more and more totalitarian, our musical taste got more and more democratic. Nirvana took indie mainstream in the 90s, and once the Internet made it cheap for smaller labels and amateur acts to get their music to consumers, it was a sonic free-for-all. MP3 players, MySpace, and Facebook all made it easier to display your taste, as well, and suddenly the hipster...
...When I graduated from HBS 16 years ago, there was no term called ‘social enterprise,’” Silbert said. “It was called the nonprofit sector. I was considered on the fringe and not a part of mainstream business.”John C. Whitehead, a former co-chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs, cited the public school system as an area in which nonprofit work could make a difference, saying the government has failed “miserably.”Whitehead called on the panel’s audience...
...themselves who are doing something more expansive? I think it's the latter. From [fantasy writers] John Crowley and Jonathan Carroll outwards, there have been these waves of people who wrote as through it were perfectly natural to use horror, or fantasy, or sci-fi approaches and themes in mainstream stories, or vice versa. It seems to me that you get the best of both worlds in that way. And in fact, the ultimate argument I would make is that there is essentially just one world if you're talking about good fiction...