Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...complexities of a weak personality under stress. Slightly less can be said of the female lead, Joe’s love interest. Though Liesje A. Hodgson ’08 is dealt a pretty bum hand in the character of Darlene, the shy, not-so-bright, doe-eyed Midwestern girl who winds up in the Naked City, her tender heart and emotional wounds standing soft relief against its jagged skyline, she also doesn’t do a very good job acting it. Despite Zigler’s legendary ability to teach and refine his actors, and though his risky...
...right about here that Payne gets nervous that he's coming across as a wine snob. His Midwestern self is suspicious of phony behavior. In Sideways, a waitress reads a special that includes "root vegetable foulon and wasabi whipped potatoes." No one in the film knows what foulon means. That's because Payne made...
...William Safire implied in his Oct. 18th editorial column in the New York Times—that they might have scored the final point on this one: The Democrats’ lip service was decidedly uncouth, and that’s not likely to go over well in those Midwestern swing states. And pro-Kerry activists like Michael Rogers, of blogactive.com, can tap his fingers gleefully and cross off one more person from the list of Gay Republicans Who I Must...
Ohio natives and White Stripes relatives The Black Keys bring their Midwestern blues-inspired rock to The Paradise in support of their latest and greatest album, Rubber Factory. San Francisco garage act The Cuts provides support. 18+. Tickets $15. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club...
...first met the Boxx about a year ago in the basement of a Unitarian church in my Midwestern hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. I had booked a show there for him, and I’d talked to him online a few times prior to our meeting. He and his friends rolled up in a crowded van about two hours late, and Juice ran into the bathroom as soon as he stumbled out of it to change into his stage clothes—a blue jumpsuit, a pair of Phat Farm boxers, and a cock-ring he?...