Word: midwestern
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...producer Greg Daniels. "But Steve has a way of playing intelligent, articulate people who make foolish choices. People who on the face of it seem smart but once you look deeper have no clue. Which is cool for comedy that's more subtle." Carell is helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough to use that look to his advantage, to maintain the grownup posture in ridiculous situations; he's the anti--Jim Carrey...
Rips believed that his father was the epitome of all things placidly, plainly Midwestern: "Born in Nebraska, he was Republican, affluent and content." But after Rips' father died, a loose thread appeared: a portfolio of paintings of a naked black woman. Nobody knew who the woman was or anything about the nature of her relationship to the family patriarch. Rips began tugging at the thread, and before long the whole gray flannel suit unraveled...
...then there is that one thing that Grumet-Morris and his teammates—be they southern or northern or Midwestern or Canadian—all understand perfectly clearly: Harvard has not won the Beanpot Trophy since...
Kids complain that there's nothing to do in the Midwestern town scientists are calling "Jefferson City." For fun, teenagers drive to the outskirts of this largely white, working-class community and get wasted. Another favorite activity? Sex. A little more than half the 1,000 students in the only high school are sexually active; the average age of initiation...
...distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...