Word: americana
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Americans live in a culture of such bizarre electronic spin and reality- unreality interchange that even a yearning for the fictions of heartening Americana like The Waltons vanishes down a hall of mirrors...
Quayle in part plays the Spiro Agnew role to Bush's Richard Nixon. But when Agnew went after the "nattering nabobs" and student protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...
...Biden, a Democrat, scoffed at the idea of "America as 'Globocop.' " At a recent international conference in Lisbon, I found Europeans and Japanese still fretting about the Times's scoop, which they took as proof that the U.S. is bent on giving new meaning to old cliches like Pax Americana and Uncle Sam as the world's policeman...
...Americana: Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...
...MOST VIABLE force in Peruvian politics has been, traditionally, its hugely popular left-wing political party, APRA, or the Alianze Popular Revolucionaria Americana for short. (APRA is also sometimes known as the Partido Apristo Peruano--that...