Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banks' foreign-loan officers, many of whom were M.B.A.s in their mid-twenties, became accustomed to royal treatment in capitals throughout the developing world. In a Harper's magazine article last year, S.C. Gwynne, a former loan officer for a "medium-size Midwestern bank," described a 1978 visit to Manila, where he met with representatives of a Philippine construction company with connections to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. After being whisked through customs, Gwynne found a red Jaguar and a pretty 20-year-old woman at his disposal. "The girl was unexpected," he wrote. "Bangkok Bank gave...
...main outlines of Eliot's career are well known. Born in St. Louis, a scion of the Midwestern branch of a distinguished American family, he studied English literature at Harvard and then pursued, with diminishing zeal, a Ph.D. in philosophy. He settled in London and worked in a bank to support himself and his English wife. When he found time and inspiration, he wrote poems, including The Waste Land (1922), that helped shape the 20th century imagination. He took up British citizenship and abandoned the Unitarianism of his parents to become a convert to the Anglican Church. He spent...
...finding Reeve was a luckier break than getting the Newmans. Almost the perfect physical match for a Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made the Big Red S a hero worth cheering...
With an unsuccessful brand of simplified Midwestern realism. Country tells--or perhaps champions is a better word--the story of a modern day farm family, the lvys, and their struggle against unfavorable farm legislation that threatens to take their land away from them...
...soon-to-be boyfriend Stuart (Tim Matheson). Stuart is a cultured yuppie finishing up his medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...