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Campaigns against pornography are not being orchestrated solely by conservative Republicans from the heartland. Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, a populist Democrat in the cradle of liberty, has been trying to clean up the city's "combat zone," which was officially designated an adult-entertainment area...
...outside Chicago, the deconstructionist New York firm SITE built a sublime McDonald's. The basic kit of pieces was standard, but SITE made the whole restaurant seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...
Both men were born and bred in the heartland: Matix hailed from Lewisberg, Ohio; Platt from Bloomington, Ind. They met during military service in Korea about ten years ago. Matix later married Patty Buchanich, and the couple became born-again Christians. In December 1983, just two months after Patty gave birth to a daughter, she and another woman were found stabbed to death at the cancer research lab in Columbus where they worked. The murders were never solved. Matix later told a religious publication that he was "beating the walls in desperation" after his wife's death...
...doesn't like anything, not anything from America's heartland, leastwise...
...stardom from the Second City--including the company of that name, which propelled Mike Nichols, among others, to Broadway and Hollywood--but the new generation is holding on fiercely to what they have built back home. Having savored the East and West coasts, they insist on returning to the heartland. Their commitment is yielding a season any city might envy. Last week Danny Glover, the busiest black actor in Hollywood (The Color Purple, Witness, Silverado), made his Chicago stage debut at Steppenwolf's intimate--and perforce uncommercial--211- seat space in Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes...