Word: mainstreaming
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Fielding applicants from low-income backgrounds is only the first marketing hurdle Harvard needs to overcome. After mailing acceptance letters, Byerly must convince students from outside Harvard’s upper-middle-class mainstream that there’s a place for them in Cambridge. That’s no easy task for a college widely considered a chilly bastion of the Northeast elite...
...better version of Hollywood. Occasionally oppositional, consistently satisfying, and always well put-together, Miramax’s marquee Oscar-bait productions at the very least saved us from the ’80s, in which the only films that could classify as “good” mainstream movies were overblown, revisionist historical epics like “Out of Africa.” And though their films have gotten less impressive (“Cold Mountain,” “Proof”), they at least started something, and now other companies are doing it better?...
Despite having widened his target demographic, Flynn insists that the festival is still “first and foremost catered to Irish and Irish-American consumers” as a way to celebrate Irish culture and accomplishments. He also lists more discerning viewers with a taste for non-mainstream, art-house movies as a secondary audience...
...that included their most recent hit, “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine.” Following this loveable drag-jangle with “The Way We Get By,” the song that single-handedly put Spoon, at least temporarily, on the mainstream radar screen (with an article in Time magazine), and pounding out “Sister Jack” right after that constituted the best one-two knockout the band had to offer and whipped the fans up as close to a frenzy as they could get without spilling their over-sized Budweisers...
...ones that segregated the races. Most of all we, and not our enlightened European brethren, are the violent and the crude. Reality, however, even long-suppressed and denied reality, has a nasty habit of rearing its head. As we have all been told by the Associated Press and other mainstream media, the mayhem that swept through neglected and impoverished neighborhoods with large African and Arab communities has been building for decades. Although this is accepted wisdom now, had one suggested the possibility of such an enormous outburst of violence a month ago, he would have been labeled a fool...