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...funds, says her agency has received 13,000 separate contributions from around the country. "People held car washes, people sold T shirts,'' she says. "A group in California staged the musical Oklahoma! and sent the proceeds." Every Friday representatives of more than 40 charitable organizations and agencies--including Project Heartland, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, churches and civic groups--meet to consider how best to manage the funds and address individual cases. Agencies pooled money, for example, to buy a specially equipped van for Susan Walton, 45, whose legs were crushed. Some $6 million has been set aside...
...alternative-culture sensibility. Its heroine is Eve, a writer whose diary relates the goings-on of her barhopping social circle: Daphne, a struggling actress; Joe, a cartoonist who has a thing for Eve; and Mick, the resident slacker, the object of Eve's desire because "he is from the heartland; he's pretty honest; and he likes board games...
NASCAR's expansion has been fueled in part by shrewd salesmanship. The league markets itself as a slice of the American heartland, with "fan-friendly" drivers who keep up a hectic schedule of autograph signings and charity events. And NASCAR has flooded the market with races. "A lot of it is quantity," says Joyce Julius Cotman, a sports-marketing analyst based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "They have the Winston Cup Series, the Busch Series, the SuperTruck Series--every weekend, there's some kind of NASCAR event going...
...year 2014, Infinite Jest projects the U.S. as a grotesquely extrapolated present. Entertainment and commercialism have reached a climax. Everything is product. Numbered years have been replaced by sponsors' names. There is the Year of Glad, the Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland, the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. The technology of pleasure has driven people deeper into themselves. There is a new political structure known as the Organization of North American Nations whose acronym is ONAN...
...initialing of the international peace accord at an Air Force base in the American heartland is a powerful demonstration of the role America still plays in managing European security. After years of wavering from the promises of his 1992 election campaign, President Clinton made the decision in late July that the time had come for the war in Bosnia to end. Clinton stiffened the resolve of our NATO allies and launched Holbrooke's diplomatic mission into the heart of the war. Aided by Croatian military victories in early August and a powerful NATO air assault several weeks later, the American...