Word: home-grown
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...cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles are now being absorbed into the postmodernist aesthetic. When Conservative Columnist George Will calls Rock-'n'-Roller Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.) an exemplar of bedrock...
That was the splashy beginning of a week of competition that had both swimmers and sinkers in the audience awash in noisy enthusiasm. And on the point of drowning in home-grown chauvinism, it should be said. When it was over, the U.S. had won 20 firsts in 29 events (counting the unprecedented double as one). Raw-meat roars of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"-part innocent glee and part boorish excess-greeted the appearance of each U.S. swimmer and the bemedaling of each new national hero...
...favorite athletes, and ABC cameras must record every sweaty moment: a total of 1,300 hours. For the events being broadcast to Americans, the network must have parallel coverage, one neutral view for the world feed and one with red-white-and-blue lenses that will concentrate on such home-grown stars as Carl Lewis, Mary Decker and Greg Louganis...
...eight novels and eight previous collections of short fiction, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 60, has emerged as the most influential home-grown critic of her country's repressive racial policies. But that reputation tends to blur some of the finer distinctions of her art. She is not really a polemicist. The portraits of her native land shade softly into irony and indirection; an overriding injustice must be deduced from small, vividly realized details. Her most important contribution to contemporary letters is not a moral message but the brilliant and memorable ways she has found to deliver...
...home-grown industry was spawned by a handful of graduate students and engineering professors, many of whom had studied at leading U.S. universities. Having witnessed the American boom in personal computers, they seized the opportunity to build and sell similar machines in Brazil...