Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tomatoes, but secretly we hid our Hamburger Helper in the back of the cupboard and dumped the Crisco out. In dizzying succession, the yuppies hit us with the jicama, the kiwi, the leek and the miniature eggplant. By the end of the 1980s, thanks to their heroic efforts, every Midwestern town sported a fern- filled "Maude's" or "Davio's" offering white chocolate mousse and blackened fish. For those who could afford to eat fashionably, dinner replaced the theater as the highbrow event of the evening -- if not the only fun part of the night...
...Nebraska fans passing through the airport after their trip to Miami and the Orange Bowl. He is in a good mood, as his abrupt introductory remark indicates, and I am pretty pissed off. Believing cheer to be infectious, I decide to partake in a little whole-some midwestern badinage...
...thick of the holiday travel season, American Eagle today grounded flights serving Chicago and five other Midwestern cities until Jan. 4. The commuter airline, beleaguered after two fatal crashes in six weeks and facing federal orders raising safety standards for all commuter aircraft, cited pilots' desire for more training in icing conditions. After grounding its entire Chicago-based ATR turboprop fleet Dec. 9 -- the models grounded in icy weather -- American Eagle had recently resumed the service with different planes. (An ATR model was involved in the Oct. 31 crash that killed 68 people in Indiana...
...week's profile of triple-threat comedy star Tim Allen, Ressner -- along with correspondent Patrick Cole -- carried the ball for a touchdown. "I went over to the set where Allen was readying a holiday episode of Home Improvement, and it felt friendly and homey," says Ressner, "more like a Midwestern summer-stock rehearsal than the place where the No. 1 TV show was being prepared." Senior editor James Collins, who supervises TIME's arts and entertainment coverage, wasn't surprised by the unusual candor that Ressner drew from Allen during their interview. "Stars are asked so many questions...
...itself. The European aristocracy that it had tried to emulate was moribund and more impoverished than ever, and in the U.S. there were simply too many circles of the rich and self-pleased -- in the oil and entertainment industries, in politics, in the media business, among wealthy alumni of Midwestern cow colleges, lately in the computer industry -- for any one social elite to retain its dominance, much less an elite that was running out of energy and wealth...