Word: mainstreaming
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After brushing the mainstream with Transatlanticism and song appearances on The O.C., the road-warriors of Death Cab for Cutie stop in for a show on Lansdowne Street. The bat-swinging neighbors across the street will either be in New York or done for the season, so expect the band’s melancholic strands to jive well with the surroundings. Matador rockers Pretty Girls Make Graves open, so get there early. $17.50. All ages. Avalon Night Club, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston...
...though, not to ignore a more basic change reflected in the ordeal: The Annenberg organization existed four years ago, but its online presence was barely felt and so the only interaction most people had with it was in the form of carefully chosen snippets reported by the spin-drenched mainstream news media. Now the candidates themselves are directing voters to this neutral, online alternative to the confusing inundation of partisan information...
...person's affection. Nancy Reagan almost single-handedly made red the new black. And any forecaster will tell you that one of the boldest moves in color trending came from the 1998 introduction of the Apple iMac, which brought juicy hues like grape and lime into the mainstream. That may also have been the first recent appearance of aqua...
...Xerox PARC had become point-and-click fans, using state-of-the-art Alto computers. But beyond that little world, few people were aware of the device until Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh in 1984. It took Microsoft's Windows 95 to take the mouse mainstream--some 30 years after its invention...
...sound. From 1996’s pop-drenched Being There to the sleepy front-porch rock of 1999’s Summerteeth, Wilco has expanded their musical diversity, culminating in their masterwork, 2002’s noise-driven Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which launched their recent brush with mainstream popularity...