Word: mainstreams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fervor--the very word is anathema to mainstream politicians. But, yes, Americans dig it. Pat Robertson knows that because his job is to get the holy to roll in the aisles. Tommy Walker and David Wolper know that, and all they did was create a gigantic celebration honoring an iron lady...
...progressives need to recognize that there are many disenfranchised individuals still waiting for someone to articulate their concerns. Robertson represents a group that used to be ignored--the religious right. There are also groups which would be receptive to a progressive message: Hispanics, Blacks and others outside America's mainstream...
...member of one of the professional teams now traveling the country may earn from $35,000 to $85,000 a year for appearing at shows under the auspices of such bike manufacturers as GT, Haro and Red Line. Bike breaking has all the signs of a street craze going mainstream: bikers are showing up in commercials (Pepsi, Swatch watches) and in music videos, and grateful merchandisers are climbing aboard with lines of bikes, gear and clothes. Says Happy Freedman, a semipro cyclist and salesman at Larry & Jeff's in New York City: "The freestyle craze is only starting. By next...
Earle's tunes do not have the sentimentality of mainstream country. They have older echoes: the scarred spirit and lonesome heart of Hank Williams, the grittiness of Johnny Cash, the Bull Run rhythmic charge of another Texas boy, Buddy Holly, who came out of a tradition that was as much old country as new rock 'n' roll. Rockabilly was the name for it, but somehow the country strains of Holly always got slighted. Rock claimed him exclusively -- and unfairly. Playing in that same territory, Earle redresses some of the balance...
...Saltonstalls come from an era when there was little accountability expected from public servants or educators. Personal, if not idiosyncratic, ethics substitute for public scrutiny; in the public arena, that means anything but mainstream political views. Each member of the family can--and does--claim to represent the family's thinking...