Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breaking away from the modern-day Midwestern world with A Thousand Acres and Moo, Jane Smiley has gambled--and won. The title character of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is much more than Laura Ingalls Wilder all grown up. Lidie confidently balances wonder and practicality to make herself, if not the most memorable literary heroine in recent times, than definitely an enjoyable one. "No one could describe what was true in Kansas or Missouri," she contemplates as she concludes her story. But with good old-fashioned honesty and a surprisingly plucky star, Jane Smiley manages...
...Midwestern Champ, ESPN...
...next-to-last week, the big dogs hunt while the little dogs stay on the porch, which is an old midwestern truism that means exactly nothing. Nevertheless, now is playoff positioning time, which means expect the favorites to come up big this week. So pick the Chiefs to cover that fat 9.5 point spread against the Chargers -- KC's a young team and the coaches will be telling players that a big win is sure to impress the bowl scouts. Likewise, the Pack minus 6.5 on the road against Carolina. And reverse the trend to take the Bills getting five...
...jerky fanciers are mostly blue-collar types, some of whom buy tube-shaped sausages 14 in. long and weighing half a pound. But in Japan the yuppies who regard jerky as a prestige snack prefer comparatively dainty 6-in. pieces. "The healthy Midwestern appetite doesn't apply there," says Jay Link. Russians are just beginning to encounter beef jerky. Link's distributors in Russia take care to place the tubes on store racks next to potato chips and small cakes so that shoppers will know they are snack food. Link products sell for 10% to 15% more than competing snacks...
...some suspension of disbelief has to be employed on the reader's part as well. Why is such an incredible catch attracted to this quiet Midwestern boy? And why does she suddenly say yes, after so many enthusiastic no's? After reading the sweetly sentimental poem John wrote for their wedding, Alida falls into his arms, and he realizes "why men have written poems all these centuries--it is to impress a woman in hopes that she will sleep with you." It is as if Alida has suddenly thrown away her previous desires to live life fully as a single...