Word: mainstreams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tunes like Lowe's Music for Money, I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass and the Lowe-Edmunds Little Hitler have a jagged cutting edge, but the melodies slip them straight into the mainstream, where they are anchored by Edmunds' fire-wheel lead guitar, Lowe's bemused vocals and fast-breaking bass ("I'm never gonna win any awards for my playing"). The sound-straight, uncomplicated, meant to give you a quick hit of euphoria-has its roots in the defunct British group Brinsley Schwarz. Lowe put in a five-year stint with the Brinsleys, while...
...years been one of the most original and disturbing in American art. During the '60s, he was widely condescended to as a minor figure, a Yankee post-surrealist constructing his dark whimsies-the haunted houses and shark-besieged boats in glass cases -at a distance from the "mainstream." But now that irony, memory, autobiography, humor and outright obsession have asserted their claims in art once more, Westermann's importance cannot be shrugged...
...harbor, Luanda's new skin of MPLA signs was mighty impressive. One sailor from Pascagoula, Mississsippi, paid the MPLA organization the highest compliment he could think of: "They're better at this than the Billy Graham Crusade!" All that the Americans had heard about the MPLA was the usual mainstream U.S. media cliches: "radical," "Marxist," "fringe group," "Soviet-supported," with all the connotations of puppetry. But to sign-plaster a city of 500,000 people occupied by the army they'd been fighting for more than a decade--that took organization, and even more importantly, popular support...
...posits a withdrawal of blacks from mainstream life at Harvard and calls this "ethnic thumb-sucking behavior," whose consequences have been disastrous. What does his analysis mean...
...increasing the importance of ministerial studies, Stendahl hopes to narrow the gap that exists today between the school and established churches. These churches are important, Stendahl says, adding, "people aren't aware of to what extent the churches are the mainstream of spiritual religion." In his report, Stendahl says, "A systematic study of, for example, the Religion section in Time would give a picture of a series of frantic experiments within and on the fringes of the religious communities. But the sum total of such experiments hardly add up to a dependable picture of ministry...