Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midwestern natives will note with annoyance that those 16-cent and 31-cent B-R cones are 25 and 45 in Cambridge. Bailey's probably has the highest quality ice cream, but a one-scoop cone costs 35 cents. If you're willing to pay, try mocha almond or the chocolate...
...again in 1976, and Mondale is not due to run until 1978. Anderson himself faces re-election next year. If he wins well, he could become a serious contender for Vice President on the '76 national ticket?with anyone, of course, except a fellow Minnesotan. Being young, Midwestern, Protestant and a Governor, he might elegantly complement a Ted Kennedy candidacy, although some might think it entirely too youthful a package. Or he might fit in well with a Muskie candidacy. Anderson insists, with a conviction he can afford at such an early age, that "I intend to do the best...
Like the state itself, Anderson can sometimes seem almost too good to be true. The son of a meat packer, he is something of a populist, an anti-elitist and egalitarian. He has athletic dash and youthful charm that make many of his constituents think of a Midwestern Kennedy. But Harry S. Truman, not J.F.K., is Anderson's hero. He is uncomfortable with great wealth. Says he: "I identify with Truman, Humphrey and Mondale. All of them were poor, close to working people and came from rural backgrounds. It's tougher for me to identify with F.D.R. and J.F.K...
When it's at its best Paper Moon comes across like a country wanderer's ballad, replete with lyrics about lonesome roads and hard times, and the resonance of Midwestern vistas and old time hotels. And indeed, Paper Moon is often at its best. Ryan O'Neal and his real life ten-year-old daughter, Tatum, successfully play a May-December couple who travel through depression Kansas trying to scrape by until they pull off a big enough con game to retire for life. Their travels are like an up-river adventure, each bend offering an old town to back...
Restraint is beyond him. The volume of his voice is a full roar; the volume of his drinking-on which he has believed "my science and art depended" -has borne him repeatedly to the edge of doom. As a last hope, he finds himself in Ward W of a midwestern hospital's treatment center, vowing to "get out of the whisky business altogether...