Word: heartlands
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...William Wallace Cook, a newspaperman and free-lance writer, published A Round Trip to the Year 2000, in which robots known as "muglugs" displace human workers, sending them to live out a miserable existence somewhere in the Midwest (a vision not designed to cheer chambers of commerce in the heartland). Voracious capitalism has triumphed. The "Air Trust" sells the very air people breathe; the "Sun Trust" forces the public to pay even for sunshine...
...these three archetypes have not whetted your appetite for more Springer, then you are abnormal. Jerry is the reigning talk show king of America, having recently unseated Oprah and her book club. Jerry has tapped into the pulse of the heartland, resurrected the spirit of the circus sideshow and rescued breast-milk fetishists from the social margins...
...cant-filled and suspiciously incomplete. Columbus mirrored the very same problem President Bill Clinton faces in trying to persuade most of America's allies, the Arab world and marginally friendly countries like Russia and China. He hasn't done any better with them than his advisers did in the heartland...
...life the city and the village venues all around it have offered a down-home, uncrowded, friendly Japan where some of the hard hats along Kencho-dori (Prefectural Office Street) are women and are wearing lipstick. The "Games from the Heart" the organizers promise are Games from the Heartland of a slow-paced, half-forgotten countryside that could almost be called Japan's New England...
...flag had been squarely planted and the White House decided simply not to respond to any but the most damaging questions. As a senior Republican official said, "The smartest thing they've done all week is shut up." In fact, Clinton and Gore left town altogether, heading to the heartland to sell the previous night's message...