Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular T shirt among the town's teen-agers proclaims: HAPPINESS is CHALDEA IN YOUR REAR-VIEW MIRROR. Even 30 years ago, youngsters did their best to escape the Midwestern farming community as soon as they graduated from high school. John Marshall Tanner, fiftyish, was no exception. Returning now for the first time, the former football hero finds the town of Chaldea little changed: as ever, skulduggery, greed and hypocrisy thrive...
When her project moved to television, the target changed. Parker said surveys showed the TV audience to be "older people" with a different view of college and "grass roots, midwestern demographically," who would enjoy watching a girl struggle to cope with eastern values and the Eastern Establishment. Harvard became the setting again...
...national popularity ended some years after the Great Depression, which had fostered it. Americans were no longer so eager to embrace those formalized visions of Midwestern fecundity, the pre-industrial Eden. They were less threatened and so needed less solace. By 1950, the remaining audience for Wood had split into two groups: a small band of loyalists in the American heartland, who continued to venerate his work as distilled American truth, and everyone else, who considered him to be less than a footnote in the history of modern art, a provincial cornball...
...become invisible after a while, and Curator Corn has made a valiant effort to strip the accretions from this one. She has included a hilarious collection of cartoons and ads based on American Gothic-an inspired piece of contextual criticism. Far from being a lampoon of conservative Midwestern farmers and their wives, American Gothic is, as she points out, "not about farmers, not about a married couple, and not a satire." Thirty-two years' difference in age lay between its models, Wood's sister Nan and a Cedar Rapids dentist named McKeeby. The subject of American Gothic...
There are almost as many ways to cook morels as there are toadstools in the forest. In Mesick and other Midwestern towns, people simply dip them in flour or cracker crumbs and fry them. Many restaurants, like Manhattan's Four Seasons and Le Français, in Wheeling, Ill., use them as garnishes for meat and game or in a cream sauce. Owner-Author George Lang of Manhattan's Cafe des Artistes insists on serving them as a separate course sauteed in olive oil or butter: "They are too precious to use as a vegetable...