Word: home-grown
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...elegant two-story ranch house, workmen put the finishing touches on baskets of Texas wild flowers hung from the limbs of live oak trees. Bouquets of chrysanthemums floated in the 40-ft. swimming pool behind the house. Cooks hovered over charcoal broilers, tending to some 200 lbs. of home-grown beef tenderloin; others monitored the huge vats where corn-on-the-cob was steaming...
Edward Gierek is allowing a revival of home-grown striptease; the art has for years been practiced almost exclusively by imported dancers in bars catering to Western tourists. In a startling departure, the state entertainment agency recently placed an ad in the big party daily inviting attractive young Polish women of 22 or under to report to Warsaw's Palace of Culture to try out for jobs as strippers...
...with the bad that dominates. It also means that, for Farber, the presence of a "physical" screen actor can compensate for the psychology the narrative develops, and the thoughts espoused. By talking with him, I learned things about the film art that you can only learn from a quirky, home-grown intelligence. But he couldn't convince me--nor, finally, did he even want to--that larger criteria are always pretentious, or that romantic visions and moral judgements are, in art, absolute evils...
...Francisco, commanded top fees of $10,000 for concert performances and made recordings that turned into classical bestsellers. She became a $300,000-a-year, one-woman industry and, at the same time, the finest singing actress since Maria Callas. And because she did so as a thoroughly home-grown talent, she revolutionized the U.S. opera scene. In short, she became Beverly Sills...
...Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction farm...