Word: mainstreaming
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Maybe not yet, Seth. Although some snowboarders--and their agents--insist they've gone mainstream, this is still a sport in which Blink 182 blares over the loudspeakers while the boarders McTwist and where a chain-smoking, black-bandanna-wearing public-address announcer--American Dave Duncan--pumps the crowd when there's a "smokin' run." His black T shirt at the women's half-pipe read, SKATE AND DESTROY. Not exactly Olympian, but your kids are catching on: the National Sporting Goods Association estimates there are more recreational snowboarders (6.6 million) than skiers (5.9 million) in the U.S. Look...
...didn’t publish these cartoons first, and we didn’t publish them alone,” Kavulla said. “There is a journalistic obligation for the mainstream media to show these things...
Cube’s films, by and large, have embraced mainstream values while reinforcing the white-washed American master narrative. In “Barbershop,” for example, Cube plays the role of the titular shop’s owner. Throughout the movie, he assists his local police department in the capture of two petty criminals, thwarts a neighborhood loan shark, and forsakes his “childish” dream of building a home recording studio so that he can focus on keeping the barbershop solvent...
...major role was in Singleton’s “Boyz,” and the commercial and critical success of that film proved that Cube was a bankable actor. Perhaps seeking to capitalize upon his initial success, Cube’s more recent projects have been increasingly mainstream (read: spineless...
...continue to take this music far beyond the scope of contemporary rap. It is only a matter of time before some enterprising American producer waters down this sound and into a massive chart hit for a faceless dance-pop act, thereby blowing it up and clearing the genre for mainstream success. I’m looking forward to it. —Staff writer J. Samuel Abbott can be reached at abbott@fas.harvard.edu...