Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...snowboarders, like Teter, still project the laid-back, surfer-dude spirit that sparked this once-renegade sport (the public address announcer's favorite word at the Mountain Creek Grand Prix: "gnarly"). But make no mistake, these elite athletes are no slackers. America is stoked about the shredders- from the mainstream sponsors whose banners line the pipe- Chevrolet, Sprint, State Farm (crash your board, but not your car)- to the mini-van moms who, kids in tow, watch Teter ?McTwist? to Guns N? Roses...
...been producing and acting for a decade and had a very very heavy workload. I decided to stop and put something back and I had the idea of creating a place for more independent type artist to come and work and have a place to develop. The mainstream was already showing signs of moving toward a more centralized position. Also there was new technology coming, there was video, there was cable, there was computers and you could imagine that the combination of those three things would mean big changes and that the changes might go more towards special effects...
...TIME:People have used the fact that a lot of the films at Sundance get mainstream distribution as an example of why it?s no longer an independent film festival...
...recognized something of value and it came to Sundance. Once the product began to outperform some of the big blockbuster films in the marketplace it drew even more attention to the festival, and films that came through our festivals as straight independent films got purchased and went into the mainstream and performed very well. Furthermore, whatever films go in that direction there?s always going to be a new batch of films that are completely independent. It?s only when they get into the marketplace that somebody says ?well it?s Sundance, it?s easy.? It really...
...clubs’ highly exclusive nature on a campus that is so lacking in the social department; we have balked at the grad boards, who virtually control final clubs’ existence, and their adamant opposition to more integration. Yet, the conflation of CAP and the Owl in mainstream media has been unfortunate. The nature of the two organizations are so dissimilar that the claims of comparability by pundits Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly were simply nonsensical. Unlike the socially-centered missions of Harvard final clubs, CAP’s mission centered on reducing the number...