Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scientists were arguing vigorously over whether animals had emotions: just because a dog looks sad or a chimp appears to be embarrassed doesn't mean it really is, the skeptics said. That argument is pretty much over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology. And thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals--primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess not just raw emotions but also subtler and more sophisticated mental states, including envy...
...drunken, lecherous former pro player (Billy Bob Thornton, taking Walter Matthau's role) who agrees to coach a bunch of talentless Little Leaguers in exchange for cash. "There's a good bit of rebellion and subversiveness in it and all the values I'd want to put out in mainstream culture," Linklater says...
...friends for the likely battle!" Says Ralph Neas, the group's president: "For the past decade or so, this hasn't been the Rehnquist court; it's been the O'Connor court. She has been the decisive vote on scores of important constitutional decisions. Replacing such a conservative, mainstream justice with a right-wing ideologue would be constitutional catastrophe...
...popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar hit Get Low. His music--along with the crunk (Southern shorthand for "cranked up," as in increased volume; it also alludes to getting crazy drunk) label--has made its way through every city block to the hip-hop mainstream...
...crop up overnight. America got a taste of what the down-home base could deliver in 1989, when Miami's Luther Campbell and his 2 Live Crew rampaged with the hit Me So Horny. But that era's strip-club-and-gospel sensibility was a little too jarring for mainstream tastes, and Campbell ended up retreating to Florida. That didn't daunt innovators like Speech of Arrested Development, Missy Elliott and the Neptunes--all from the South...