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GEORGE BUSH hates the R word. Rather than refer to the recession, he likes to talk about the recovery. But skeptical Midwestern business leaders have coined their own R word. When they discuss the state of the economy, they speak sarcastically of Washington's "recovery-ette...
...reinvented the radio variety show some years ago with his Prairie Home Companion program Saturday evenings on public radio, the driving emotional force was a shameless, moony nostalgia for the never-was. But misty reminiscence taken straight out of the bottle is saccharine. What gives Keillor's wamblings about Midwestern small-timers their cutting edge (they continue on his new American Radio Company show) is a rare mix of exile's longing and eye-rolling exasperation. Were we really that awful, and was it really that grand...
...Armenians, one Hispanic and one African American. Mayor Humphrey sees the new $33 million city hall being constructed as a riposte to those who write off the downtown or who cling to the image of Fresno as an agrarian market town. Despite her claim about the place's Midwestern qualities, she sides with those who believe the city can meet its challenges only if it thinks in terms as cosmopolitan as its new population. The city hall is the very model of a computerized managerial center. Its council chamber has a Big Brother-like screen on which blueprints and other...
Cartoonists accomplish their greatest feats when pushing the limits of their medium. The bizarre juxtaposition of a "normal" Minnesota family and its new Californian cartoonist sister-in-law, in "Midwestern Wedding," reveals the darkness underlying American normality...
...wing savants, from William F. Buckley Jr. to William Safire to Patrick Buchanan to P.J. O'Rourke, whose Manichaean world view and scathing wit make them livelier pundits than anyone in the gray liberal establishment. But he is also, and mainly, an old-fashioned radio spellbinder in the seductive Midwestern tradition of Jean Shepherd, Ken Nordine and Garrison Keillor. "Rush utilizes the medium better than any talk-show host I have ever heard," says veteran comedy writer Ken Levine, who with his partner David Isaacs is developing a TV series loosely based on Limbaugh. "He sounds like a good...