The combined mystique of Lincoln and Day-Lewis – a dual gold-standard of mainstream quality – may be impossible to resist.
But it is, by the standards of mainstream American theater, indirect and subversively, discomfitingly thought-provoking.
The subjects are the uncertainty and unkindness of life; their treatment is always, by the standards of mainstream theater, bafflingly arcane.
Such was the power of Kael's voluminous writing about movies that she transformed the sensibility and standards of mainstream pop culture criticism in America -- mostly for the better, despite her bullying personality (in print and in life), her sloppy professional ethics and her at times careerist escapades in self-dramatizing contrarianism.
8. Phyllis Rooney has argued that compared with other recently developed approaches that challenge some of the standard assumptions of mainstream epistemology, feminist epistemology suffers a greater degree of marginalization from what she calls "epistemology proper"(Rooney 2011).
But is it fair to hold a new art form up to such demanding standards of broad mainstream resonance?
Meanwhile, the supporting cast of writers behind Legend and Mills has been slimmed to a mere 12, which by the standards of modern mainstream R&B albums counts as very much a skeleton staff.
Last September, during a lecture at Southern Methodist University, a distinguished journalist brought down the house when he deplored the debased standards of the mainstream news media, charging that they were "all becoming tabloids".
Instead of the music industry standard of waiting for mainstream radio stations to pick up the band's music, I.R.S. hoped to "convince reluctant programmers to add the group by pointing to the press response, word-of-mouth reaction to local live performances and sales figures", according to a July 1984 Los Angeles Times article.
The academic scientific register is thought of by many as a more intellectually demanding level of standard mainstream English.
The ad is sort of standard mainstream media stuff complete with carefully diversified (sexually and ethnically) winners, but it's a great showcase for Gizmoz's technology (see our launch post for an overview of their 3D avatar product).
