Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cigarettes over too many years and a great deal of whisky and gin. New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea. His accent remains stubbornly and glottally Midwestern nasal. He flunks the honk test...
...photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...
Jean Shepherd is fiftyish. He has a middle-age bulge and styled hair. But oddly enough he does not speak with the Midwestern twang that characterizes his stories, films, and radio shows...
...Phantom," told in flashback, depicts life in what Shepherd calls an archetypal Midwestern town during the 1940's. "It is the story of a family, each character impinging on each other, intertwining to create a story line," Shepherd said...
...Badlands, she brought an unlikely but saving sympathy to the part of a Midwestern high school girl on an interstate crime spree with her boy friend. Currently, she is raising goose bumps, and even bringing a tear or two, as the put-upon heroine of Carrie, Brian De Palma's nightmare chiller about a young girl with telekinetic powers. For a little change of pace, she shows up as a topless housekeeper and part-time hooker in Welcome to L.A. (TIME, Nov. 22), winning the broadest laughs in a hard-edged social satire directed by Newcomer Alan Rudolph. Says...