Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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He’s staying with the same host family, the Falveys, who housed him as a 16-year-old. “This is probably the best housing I’ve ever had,” Lane said. “This is a typical, all-around Midwestern family. They cook soup and stuff. This is no B.S., all Midwestern...
...warned young Americans to think about a draft, joked about Dick Cheney’s cardiac health, and lashed out at the “Divided States of Embarrassment” for abandoning free speech. The national rhetoric of redemption began to ring hollow as this spokesperson of the Midwestern underclass resonated all the way to Harvard; sales tripled those of his previous release...
...hadn’t seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded...
Some of today's IPOs are even more seasoned--like Journal Communications, a Midwestern newspaper and media company, and National Financial Partners, a financial-services firm run by Jessica Bibliowicz, daughter of Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill. Both make money, and both have seen their shares rise in a modest but steady fashion. "Very few companies today are able to raise money on just a wish," says Jay Chandler, head of equity syndication at Merrill Lynch. "That late-'90s-style IPO market is not open for business...
...mother and I have long been fans of the traditional TV makeover. My mom’s personal favorite was the Oprah Mother’s Day makeover extravaganza. In these episodes a harried Midwestern mother of five or six would appear on the show with spittle on her Winnie the Pooh sweatshirt and bags under her eyes the size of walnuts. Her equally prematurely aging (yet surprisingly jolly) husband usually showed up with the kids, and together they begged Oprah to give mom the Mother’s Day makeover of her dreams. The “before?...