Word: heartlanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days of single-set, four- or five-character dramas. The other, even more startling, is the very fact that anyone would choose to bring this sprawling, earnest pageant back to Broadway. Rather than current theater, it resembles Oberammergau's passion plays or those outdoor historical extravaganzas in the U.S. heartland that put a wig and costume on practically everyone in town...
Favorite cereal: I knew you'd ask that. I like cereal a lot. My favorites include: Quaker 100% Natural, Rice Krispie Treats Cereal--it's great. I can't remember the specific name, but Chex makes a great graham cracker-flavored cereal. And finally, there's a cereal called "Heartland," which is simply divine. Basically, it's granola, but very wicked, dessert-like granola...
...Four dollars to see Harrison Ford running for his life in "The Fugitive" for two hours, or gaze at the heartland of America for free...
With America moving toward an era when there may be no ethnic majority, with whites just another minority, multicultural and p.c. demands are spreading to previously unbesieged institutions. Ethnic studies have been mandated at such heartland schools as the University of Wisconsin and Texas A&M. At Yale, funds unavailable to most extracurricular groups underwrote student performances of Hispanic culture, while nearly half the student body petitioned for more courses on the Asian-American experience...
...author says wryly, but "light blue." Though the commotion of being abruptly famous feels "like I've backed into some bizarre machinery," her professional life is blissful now. This is not so much due to the shelfful of literary prizes she has collected this year (the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Heartland and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, as well as last week's honor) as to the fact that she doesn't have to write any more short stories. "I had a terrible time writing them," she says. "Editors always complained -- 'You put too much in; you have too many...