Word: midwesterner
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...fundamental idea behind Somewhere In Time is that true love can overcome any obstacle from social boundaries to the ultimate trump card, time itself. The film chronicles the supposedly magnificant obsession of one Richard Collier, a milk-fed Midwestern playwright marked for success by the gods for his overpowering goodness. Collier seems to come roaring out of the pages of Grit, but no matter, he is successful and stylish with a fancy glass office in Chicago, a foreign sports car and expensive clothes. And yet, he is not satisfied. He has broken up with his girlfriend, he needs...
...thing that makes me so mad is the 'American Scene' business," Hopper told an interviewer in 1964. "I never tried to do the American scene as Benton and Curry and the Midwestern painters did. I think the American Scene painters caricatured America. I always wanted to do myself." Yet the idea that he was a cultural nationalist lingers to this day, and one still reads in current histories of American art such remarks as, "For Hopper, contact with Europe meant little, even though he visited Paris three times between...
...route to Kansas City from Denver, on the last leg of his year-end tour, the one-time pizza maker from suburban San Diego celebrates his thirtieth birthday. It's Pearl Harbor Day in this wintry, flat midwestern town...
...visionaries have dreamed of a video "college of the air" that would bring higher education to all. Just last November, Philadelphia Publishing Mogul Walter Annenberg (TV Guide, Seventeen magazine) offered to donate $ 150 million to develop a nationwide college curriculum for public television. A coalition of eleven Midwestern schools, including the universities of Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa, has started the University of Mid-America, based in Lincoln, Neb., which offers a handful of college credit courses on public "television, and seeks public support for a full-fledged degree program...
Neither Cooper nor Brett will ever win a home run title. Both play in small, midwestern markets. But Brett's Royals, sporting baseball's best record, are coasting toward the post-season television exposure of the A.L. Championship Series. The Brewers, picked by many to win their division, have flopped; they stand in fifth place, 13 1/2 games behind...