Word: midwestern
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...Riverside Theater in Milwaukee is aware, this singular citizen--unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated--is the inventor, host, chief writer and principal song-and-dance man of an astonishing radio show called A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio each Saturday at 5 p.m. Midwestern time. Usually it originates from the World Theater in St. Paul, but during renovations there, the program is on the road, tonight in Milwaukee. It is now 4:57½, and Keillor is cranking up to do his first live broadcast in five weeks. He flaps about looking distracted, claiming that...
...Yorker a few weeks ago, about the troubles of the first woman major-league baseball player. (Twenty-seven of his magazine pieces were collected in 1982's Happy to Be Here, which sold 210,000 copies.) But it is the Lake Wobegon imaginings that raise comparisons with the Midwestern bedfalls and dogaclysms of James Thurber and, further east, with the work of the late E.B. White, the essayist of The New Yorker who wrote so memorably of rural Maine. This is high company, but one additional comparison is beginning to be made. Keillor has sometimes performed in a white suit...
Chang said she is aware of her pioneering status as the first female and first Asian-American director of the program, but the position also means returning to her midwestern roots...
...College Hockey America—come nowhere near the caliber of Denver. Should the Pioneers score early or mount a quick, aggressive offensive attack, there’s a strong chance that the Beavers will suffer the same fate they have all year long at the hands of Midwestern powerhouses: high-scoring losses...
Crimson has about $600 million under management and investments in some 20 companies with a presence in China. A dozen other investments have either gone public or been sold to large multinationals. Crimson partner Ian Morton says Midwestern manufacturing executives who once were reticent about moving production offshore now interrupt him to ask for help before he can finish a presentation...