Word: midwesterner
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...comes down with mono and skips numerous classes without having to drop out of school. King and her application to Harvard would have thrilled the admissions office no end. After all, she is the type of student the office is desperately trying to attract--she's from a small Midwestern city, editor of her school newspaper, a good student, and willing to give up a good scholarship to her state university to venture east to Harvard...
...film is so aimlessly anecdotal in its opening positions that there is little dramatic connection between the characters. Reality is so quickly and cursorily observed that there seems nothing else to do but bring on the bombs. There are no people here, only targets, stick figures on a Midwestern landscape waiting to be wasted. A kind of predictable character collage revolving erratically around the travails of Robards' nicely realized surgeon, the movie misses dramatic force because it has no center. It does, however, have a centerpiece, a 4-min. sequence representing the atomization of Middle America and, by extension...
...like punishment, and for years that was what I called it. I would think, 'My Daddy was mean to me, but it was O.K. because I was a bad girl.' " Sherry had no one to tell. Her father was the only minister in a small Midwestern town. "I never had any hope that anyone would hear or believe or listen to me. After church everyone would say how lucky I was to have such a fine father...
...concluded that reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide from plants in the Midwest would significantly reduce acid rain in the Northeast. Our report did not say this. While there is a link between sulfur dioxide emissions over the eastern U.S. and acid rain over the same region, the contribution of Midwestern sources to acid rain in the Northeast remains unknown...
...sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly," say the authors, "the most resistant to change were the Midwestern states, where even in the depression of the '80s many leaders in both management and labor seemed to imagine they could continue their old adversarial ways and regain their lost prosperity without fundamental readjustments...