The '60s brought a turn in mainstream attitudes about desire and sexuality.
It's not exactly a mainstream view to desire, as former BP group chief executive John Brown did, ever closer ties with the Gaddafi regime.
Known for his long straggly hair, sharp suits and bevy of glamorous companions, Raymond became a larger-than-life figure in the West End but his association with pornography never afforded him the mainstream respectability he desired.
The radical right in Europe is making a similar pitch, and for the same reason: the emergence of a large section of the electorate who feel the world they grew up with and valued is fading away, that what is replacing it is alien and threatening, and that no one in the mainstream understands their desire to turn back the tide of change.
"At the heart of my despair about the novel had been a conflict between my feeling that I should Address the Culture and Bring News to the Mainstream and my desire to write about the things closest to me, to lose myself in the characters and locales I loved," he wrote.
The mainstream media's desire to focus the dialogue around the tragedy on MDMA is not only sensationalist, but poses misdirection from significant facts and distractions from very real issues.
Kaine on Thursday was working toward another idea, in which what was significant about millennials was how unexceptional they were, how mainstream and thwarted their desires.
This is a good move from SixApart at a time where open standards and open access are quickly building momentum from being niche desires to mainstream wants.
While a desire for mainstream success seems apparent in almost every comedian performing in this city, it could be that neither of these comics wants it.
The Woods story, like the death of Jackson, has tested the mainstream news media's desire and ability to compete with TMZ and other gossip-fueled sites.
