Word: midwestern
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...When you started out in the advice business 33 years ago, you were a square, Midwestern Jewish girl leading a life without woes. How did you relate to people with problems, and how did you find your voice? It seems to be a mix of liberal politics and conservative morals...
...featuring elegant drapery. Former Hollywood star Esther Williams has lent her name to a line of classic one-piece suits reminiscent of her costumes in films like Neptune's Daughter. Using a bit of verbal camouflage, Body Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like heavy thighs, tummy bulge and wide hips." A Gottex suit that covers up lower-abdomen paunch with a strategically placed cummerbund has drawn more than 15,000 orders through the Spiegel catalog alone...
...Daley's inimitable style (his most famous malaprop occured during the 1968 Democratic primary, at which Chicago police forcefully attacked student demonstrators, when he said, "The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder."), this is not a quaint piece of folksy, Midwestern wisdom; this is the heartbeat of politics...
...quite slimy enough as the money-hungry producer, but he does a nice job in his second-act apologies to Connell. Eliza Clark, who plays the brothers' mother, makes her inevitable appearance late in the second act. Her deadpan senility (She has come from Alaska to the oppressive Midwestern heat without removing her winter coat) is difficult to accept, but she wisely remains in the background during the fascinating resolution of the brothers' conflict...
...from a small, Midwestern town, Defiance, Ohio, where her father was a Methodist minister," he says. "She has a very pure Midwestern work ethic and people ethic. Coming from that background, she's not a cutthroat, conservative person...