Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Presidency of George Bush (Simon & Schuster; 1992). Duffy learned from Goodgame how to play poker; Goodgame named his third son Michael. "Duffy is a hell of a lot of fun--always working the phones, yelling, laughing and scooping up great tips," says Goodgame. "He has a rare combination of Midwestern roots and Washington savvy...
...mother and I drove home in silence. I walked outside beneath a starry Midwestern sky. A gentle breeze swirled through the cornfields stretching across the horizon. I sat down, overwhelmed by the beauty. Then I cried and cried and cried and never thought I would stop...
...Deserves It: Anyone who wrote off Fargo as a mean-spirited riff on Midwestern accents missed the human heart of a totally original film whose every scene, shot, and performance struck the right, eccentric note
...busy morning in the cloning laboratory of the big-city hospital. As always, the list of people seeking the lab's services is a long one--and, as always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin...
Also waiting in the cloning lab this morning is the local industrialist. Unlike the Midwestern parents, he does not have a sick child to worry about; indeed, he has never especially cared for children. Lately, however, he has begun to feel different. With a little help from the cloning lab, he now has the opportunity to have a son who would bear not just his name and his nose and the color of his hair but every scrap of genetic coding that makes him what he is. Now that appeals to the local industrialist. In fact, if this first...