Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration is that it is the present embodiment of the American Dream. Doonesbury's Duane Delacourt, in charge of symbolism for Carter and Brown, was a parody of the symbols the Left still has to offer--tired repetitions of the idea that politics could be groovy as well as homespun. But what Reagan has done--and it must be seen as some kind of bizarre triumph--has been to reclaim the remnants of the symbolism of the right: the we're-the-really-good-guys syndrome that descends directly from Jefferson and Hoover. And he has accommodated them...
...caucus in a Des Moines school the chairwoman initially counted "35-ish for Mondale, 30-plus for McGovern" University of Northern Iowa History Professor Charles Quirk, Brian's father, thinks the inexact, homespun democracy is terrific. People criticize the caucuses as a meaningless media show," he says "But it s a civics lesson for us all. Both the politicians and the people are better...
Lack of teachers to learn from and of great paintings to see: such problems crimped the style of American painters or sent them, like Benjamin West (the Pennsylvania prodigy who became the second president of the Royal Academy) into European careers. Often the homespun Doric is better than the mail-order Ionic. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) was no Poussin, but his groups of flatboatmen and river traders, leaning on crates with the air of Arcadian shepherds on a ruin whilst floating through the delicate silver haze of the Missouri, are often genuinely classical in their construction and repose...
...they have ignored the economic crisis all along. Despite the negative indicators, consumers have been on a massive spending spree, snapping up appliances, going on vacations abroad and buying automobiles at a rate almost twice that of last year. The reason for their nonchalance: a combination of official and homespun safeguards that insulates almost every citizen from the roller coaster of the national economy...
...Collaboration's performance is something of a homespun version of Saturday Night Live. Much of the material seems fit for such a show, but this revue has such a "hey-kids-lot's-put-on-a-show-I've got-a-barn-we-can-use" spirit to it that it can hardly be seen as a direct takeoff on the SNL prototype. And besides, this show has something going for it that SNL and Second City TV will never have, and something that the audiences who eat up this brand of humor will rarely experience. It's live. Anything...