It needed the tag "alternative" to distinguish it from the mainstream of the time.
Bork lost not because he answered but because of how he answered; a majority of senators saw him, correctly, as being outside the political mainstream of his time.
Another reason that these artists can remain religious and inventive might lie in the roots of Judaism itself, a faith that began with one rogue who decided to shun the mainstream of his time and live by new, strange rules.
Their money spawned academic proposals, some of which, like privatized Social Security or missile defense, were so far beyond the mainstream of their time as to be considered ludicrous.
The American author Robert Jay Lifton notes that Mengele's published works did not deviate much from the scientific mainstream of the time, and would probably have been viewed as valid scientific efforts even outside the borders of Nazi Germany.
The architect for Four Corners, Rick New of DTJ Design in Boulder, Colo., noted that while the idea of New Urbanism is becoming more mainstream, "lots of times builders only use it as a marketing gimmick by just putting a garage in the back of a house and the porch in front".
Torn between menu adaptations geared at a wider audience and the mainstream disapproval of time-honored arts like heart disease, Philadelphia sandwich eaters may be witnessing the refinement of the cheesesteak and, with it, the shaking foundations of that liberty for which the city is so famous. .
By contemporary lights, that Sally's behavior is an issue at all makes the play quaint, of course, so to a certain extent it belongs in the mainstream of neither our time nor its own.
Building a niche sports property and taking it to the mainstream takes a decent amount of time.
"The idea and the conversation around the 1% and the 99% has been in the mainstream for a decent amount of time now," Sikic tells The Creators Project.
