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...taught anthropology at numerousuniversities, including the University of Chicagoand Johns Hopkins. He has also authored fourworks, including Land Behind Baghdad andThe Heartland of Cities. He now serves asSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution inWashington...
Actually, the country music lover long ago abandoned the Southern holler for the middle-class suburbia of satellite dishes that politicians like to call the heartland. (Appropriately, the cornfield on the set of Hee Haw was recently transformed into a mall.) Republicans have understood this ever since Richard Nixon became the first President to visit the Grand Ole Opry in 1974. George Bush campaigned with country music stars Loretta Lynn and Peggy Sue, and made a pilgrimage to Nashville last year for the Country Music Association Awards. In many ways, the voters Bush was after are those who make...
...there is also this girl and a man who has yet to see forty, drinking a cup of coffee, and two young men working at the movie house as well. These photographs surprise me. I expected only the wrinkled, leathery man in overalls, smiling a soft, heartland smile, or the heavy boy wearing a plain white T-shirt and think black sideburns, who perhaps works in his family's grocery store...
...crackle of gunfire from the Guazapa volcano in El Salvador's heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death. Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
Some 300 journalists, not to mention innumerable tabloid-TV types from shows like A Current Affair and Hard Copy, have converged on this drowsy resort. Local TV news shows, with their marvelous ability to manufacture hysteria, pump images out to the heartland every night, creating the inaccurate impression that the trial is a drama conducted at a fever pitch and that the media coverage is a "zoo." A zoo it may be, but one with very small, very docile animals...