Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That is very bad." So sighs Nastassja Kinski, 23, about her failed romances. On screen, art imitates life. In Maria's Lovers, shown last week as the opening feature of the Venice film festival, Kinski plays the granddaughter of Eastern Europeans who is smitten by a naive Midwestern boy, played by John Savage, 35. While her sweetheart is away fighting in World War II, Maria becomes involved with another man. This sets the stage for what Kinski found to be "the most difficult scenes: where Maria's returned sweetheart cannot make love to her because he loves...
...Iowa girl had first been moved by the Depression-era plight of the Midwestern farmers. On a visit to Cuba in 1935, she chronicled the hopeless resistance to the new Batista dictatorship. The same year she was in Nazi Germany reporting on opposition to Hitler. In Spain in 1937, she witnessed the death throes of the Spanish Republic. Her biographer asks: "What could be a more vivid embodiment of a life lived according to principle...
Purple Rain's barely disguised protagonist is Prince as Prince--alias the Kid, a Milwaukee post-adolescent with a decidedly un-Midwestern penchant for the badder things in life. Supposedly modeled after the friends' garage where the young Prince carried on his musical and sexual experiments, the Kid's room looks like Jodie Foster's den in Taxi Driver...
With all the hoopla of a midwestern provincial fair, Canada's ruling Liberal Party held a convention in Ottawa last week to choose a successor to Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who has led the country for 15 of the past 16 years. Seven candidates tried to woo the party's 3,500 delegates with barbecued ribs and chicken, corned-beef sandwiches, chips and plenty of suds, rock bands and sightseeing boats. But in the end, after three days of speeches and revelry, the delegates Saturday evening elected on the second ballot the candidate who had been the front runner...
Block, who was in Japan last week to promote U.S. farm exports, told TIME the loans were rollovers of borrowings first taken out before he became Secretary. Midwestern bankers and economists confirm that banks made many unsecured loans during the 1970s to farmers who, like Block and his partners, bought land that was rising in value, and the banks willingly renewed such loans in the early 1980s. Says Richard Kohls, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University: " The banks treated Block just like they did other farmers...