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Game Developers Conference This top-ranked gathering of videogame-industry professionals includes exhibits, sessions with makers of famous games like Jordan Mechner "Prince of Persia" and awards to non-mainstream "independent" games.
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It is his launching pad that identifies major, non-mainstream artists whose work often sings with divergent quality.
Paul Klein: The Catharsis of Hillbilly Nudity Paul Klein 2010
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The exceptions are a very few very recent or non-mainstream things I'm interested in that even the library doesn't have.
The Reading Class, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The problem with nominating scholars (as opposed to judges) is that if you want to be noticed, then you need to take non-mainstream positions – which is why Pam Karlan, Kathleen Sullivan, Lawrence Tribe, Cass Sustein, et.al. will never be nominated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar 2010
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This growing desire to showcase alternative theater inspired the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; these non-mainstream companies and performers - the "fringe" of official festival theater - were only the beginning of what has now become an international performing and visual arts event, known as the Fringe Festival, hosted in various major cities around the world.
Fringe Festivals from Around the World Sophia Moreno-Bunge 2010
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The profession does not have a process for rapidly trying and discarding new ideas, so it does not take advantage of what is useful in non-mainstream thinking in a timely fashion.
Intellectual Arrogance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If Pirates II featured explicit bestiality, necrophilia, or perhaps other non-mainstream sexual practices it probably would be obscene even under contemporary community standards in College Park.
Discourse.net: Michael Masinter's Guide to the Legal Issues in U.Md. Porn Screening Case 2009
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Of course, courts are not widely known for giving deference to non-mainstream religions, particularly such as those listed, possibly because they do not have a lot of political clout.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons) 2010
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The profession does not have a process for rapidly trying and discarding new ideas, so it does not take advantage of what is useful in non-mainstream thinking in a timely fashion.
Intellectual Arrogance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This growing desire to showcase alternative theater inspired the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; these non-mainstream companies and performers - the "fringe" of official festival theater - were only the beginning of what has now become an international performing and visual arts event, known as the Fringe Festival, hosted in various major cities around the world.
Fringe Festivals from Around the World Sophia Moreno-Bunge 2010
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