Word: mainstreaming
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...much praised, little-seen Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In Robert Rodriguez's cult hit Sin City (also based on a Miller graphic novel), practically nothing is real but the people. It's not so much cinema as synema. And it's creeping into more mainstream movies: in Blood Diamond, a tear was digitally added to Jennifer Connelly's flawless cheek, after the fact, to put the exclamation point on a crucial scene...
Unlike most fringe presidential candidates, Kucinich has years of experience in elective office. But even mainstream liberals won't support a candidate who wants to end the war on drugs and create a Department of Peace. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman passed over him for chairman of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, which he was in line to take over. Even Shirley MacLaine, who has been friends with Kucinich since the '70s, sees how his party won't embrace him. "Maybe it's because he doesn't speak doublespeak and we're so used to seeing that...
...bulldog growl is not falling entirely on deaf ears in the suburbs. "We've been waiting for someone to say, 'If you're French above all, you're welcome and have a place among us,'" says Habiba, who contrasts Le Pen's appeal with that of mainstream politicians who "keep telling us we're French, but continue shutting us out as eternal foreigners." Smahi, a leftist until he joined Le Pen's party a decade ago, agrees: "The National Front" he says, "was the first place where, once I accepted my identity and responsibilities as a French citizen, I wasn...
...political devotees, Bennelong is an indigenous word meaning Middle Australia: average, mainstream, "aspirational." Howard knows how his constituents think and act because he is one of them. First elected to federal Parliament in 1974, he has traveled well beyond his origins and his own family's home on the city's comfortable North Shore. But the P.M. has never lost his bearings on the area he represents, even as it has been transformed by wealth and Asian immigration. In fact, Bennelong is Howard's touchstone for the get-ahead and assimilating migrants he believes are the key to national cohesion...
...Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Director Sarah Rankin, who also attended the discussion, said that “there’s a general lack of awareness about anything outside mainstream sexual violence...