Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throw in uncomfortable gym-induced wedgies, bumbling exchanges with celebrities, a provincial midwestern upbringing, a suspicious sanitary napkin ("about the size of a Depends undergarment"), and you have the raw and sometimes hilariously raunchy narrative materials of Kron's 101 Humiliating Stories, a solo comedic performance in the A.R.T.'s Fall Festival...
...tramping through the fevered political swamp of Florida, where they will have to contend with issues like Fidel, the Gaza Strip and Medicare, Part B. That's because, now that Senator Robert Dole has spooked his opponents into believing he's invincible on the early New England and Midwestern turf, Florida -- with its Hispanic, Jewish and elderly voting blocs -- is emerging as the must-win primary state...
...this measure, American poetry must be ailing. Is there any other art form in this country whose vigor is more dependably extolled? Literary organizations both large and small are forever "celebrating" someone or something--Midwestern poets or Latino poets, farmer poets or cowboy poets, formal poets or rap poets. It all feels sometimes like an extended, floating party. Celebration is certainly the aim of Bill Moyers' eight-part PBS series The Language of Life, whose airing coincides with the publication of a companion book, predictably subtitled A Festival of Poets...
John R. Harrison '55, from Iowa by way ofGeorgia, reflects his roots as a pleasant blend ofsouthern and midwestern folksiness...
...minutewait for a plate of caponata spaghetti is nothingunusual, and where first years learn to dine tothe dull roar of 1,600 of their chatteringclassmates. Many believe that the Union, more thananything else, defines the first-year experience.Never again do students eat Chickwiches with agroup the size of some Midwestern towns...