Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...says Fields. "But he expects us to deliver--and told us that." Anne Stevens, who heads manufacturing in North America, is a tough-talking engineer from New Jersey ("You got a problem with that?" she says with a laugh) whose style contrasts notably with Ford Motor's mild-mannered Midwestern culture. Fields and Stevens, often referred to as Mark and Anne in the same breath, are the people Bill will rely on to steer the turnaround...
...fund raisers a night in Washington, lobbyists would have to wait until recesses, making it harder to convert last night's donation into tomorrow's amendment. By lightening schedules, a ban would improve lawmakers' lives but flatten the capital's vast catering and events economy. Still, quipped a Midwestern lawmaker, "it would be the best airline bailout we could ever pass," since more fund raisers would take place out of town. Chance of passage...
...called A History of Violence, and there's plenty of that, but the movie could also be called The Mystery of Sex, for two scenes shared by Maria Bello and Viggo Mortensen. In the first, Bello, the doting Midwestern wife and mom, dons her old cheerleader togs for some playful whoopee with Mortensen, her placid, stalwart hubby. In the second, all hell breaks loose on the stairs of their home. The sex is angry, feral, more an act of fury than of love, and she might be doing it with a different, more dangerous...
...essentially it’s very conservative.” Begun as a 1997 short story in “The New Yorker” written by Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain” is inspired by a nuanced encounter Proulx had while sitting in a Midwestern bar. During a trip to Laramie, Wyo. in 1997—ironically the same town that would capture national attention only one year later, when Matthew Shepard died as a result of a gay hate crime—Proulx saw a man sitting at the bar, watching other guys play pool...
Ashley is hilarious. That is, of course, if you are referring to her Midwestern accent. But her addiction to all things dairy doesn’t keep her from doing a damn good designing job for the magazine. Plus, she always brings cheese to the production suite, which is nice, especially next year when we call Ashley at 4 a.m. to recover all the pages we lost. Hopefully she won’t go running back to PBHA...