Word: midwesternisms
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Businessmen were reassured by Carter's Cabinet choices. Said a top General Motors Corp. executive: "Whatever decisions he makes, he will at least have the advice of people who know our problems." Moreover, the Midwestern economic outlook is improving. Detroit hopes to sell close to 10 million cars and 3.5 million trucks this year, thus putting to work many of the 39,000 unemployed auto workers. In turn, the steel and tire industries are heading for a good year, and the prosperity will trickle down to the rest of the region's economy. Said Eugene Swearingen, chairman...
...cigarettes over too many years and a great deal of whisky and gin. New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea. His accent remains stubbornly and glottally Midwestern nasal. He flunks the honk test...
...photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...
Jean Shepherd is fiftyish. He has a middle-age bulge and styled hair. But oddly enough he does not speak with the Midwestern twang that characterizes his stories, films, and radio shows...
...Phantom," told in flashback, depicts life in what Shepherd calls an archetypal Midwestern town during the 1940's. "It is the story of a family, each character impinging on each other, intertwining to create a story line," Shepherd said...