Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Presidents are like geologic formations, created by successive layers of living. Almost everything they think and do is rooted in some experience from earlier years. Ford was a hearty Midwestern boy who always had a job, studied hard in school played sports with even more enthusiasm, excelled in the Boy Scouts, went to war, became a lawyer and then a member of Congress from Grand Rapids, Mich. He never wandered from that heritage of discipline, honor and decency...
...McCormick traveled the world aboard his own luxuriously outfitted B-17 bomber that included a swivel chair mounted in the plane's picture-window nose. From this vantage point, he offered readers his judgments of the nations of the earth, finding most of them filthy, lazy and wanting in Midwestern virtue. From Libya he once wrote, "No water in river, and country full of Wops." The British he regarded as "pink-coated, horn-blowing, supercilious bankrupts." The Blessed Isles were to him just one big "chalk-cliffed hell." McCormick ably reinforced the trait of editorial looniness so eagerly deployed...
...those people out there who have everhoped that they might one day join mobs of skinny,acne-plagued teenagers dressed in black to danceand worship satanic figures, tonight your dreamscome true. Marilyn Manson, tortured souland all, will perform his hits tonight in aconcert banned in most Midwestern states. 7:30p.m., Tsongas Arena, Lowell, 617-931-2000. Tickets...
...future avant-gardist had for a mentor a man who hated abstract art. But when Pollock came under Benton's tutelage, he wasn't aiming at abstraction. Benton's way of composing, with its heftily twisting figures and buckling, scoop-and-bump space, was based on 16th century Mannerism--Midwestern El Greco and Tintoretto; he even adapted the Mannerist device of reducing the figures to geometrical dolls, sometimes modeling them in clay. This vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock as a container for his own emotional flailing. Though some painters show early signs of genius...
DIED. FRANK YANKOVIC, 83, a.k.a. America's Polka King, maestro of Midwestern dance halls for seven decades who won the first ever Grammy for the folksy musical genre; in New Port Richey, Fla. Yankovic pumped his first accordion at age nine and soon took his signature Slovenian-style polka show on the road. Devoted fans, some known to have ripped off his clothes, won his devotion in return: he played so many one-night stands that he missed the birth of all 10 of his kids...