Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election-if he picks a woman. He has to take a gamble." Ferraro, 48, is the leading female contender. As an Italian American from the East, Ferraro would provide political leavening. Feinstein, 50, the impressive Jewish mayor of a hip city, would help compensate for the nominee's Midwestern squareness...
Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city's hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks mockingly called it "India-no-place." For almost a century, it was a city lacking a distinct identity. Sure, it was the state capital and could boast about being "the crossroads of America," what with U.S. Highways 31, 36, 40, 52 and 136 and Interstate Highways 65, 69, 70 and 74 all converging there. And since 1911, the city has hosted the Indy 500, that annual race...
...Numeraries also practice bodily mortification such as fasting or early rising. Periodically, there are also brief sessions of self-flagellation with long braided strings and periods of wearing a type of cilice, a barbed metal band, on the upper thigh. These, explains Father William Stetson, Opus director for four Midwestern states, "are small reminders of what our Lord endured...
...that certain elegance." Robert Watkins III, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., recalls alliteratively, "the supreme sense of self-confidence." And Missouri-born Perry Smith, then the president of the Lampoon and now an Episcopal priest, sums up his college experiences as if they were part of a fable: "Little midwestern boy came and made good...
LEVINSON'S SPECTACULAR use of light makes the film truly magnificent--light that creeps into darkened rooms, the moonlight that illuminates the expansive midwestern farmland or even the bright glare in the stadium. This light in fuses many scenes in a breathtaking moments transports possibly melodramatic moments into fantasy. And Redford as Hobbs gives the film its American epic quality. Redford plays the store and wholesome Hobbs wonderfully. Oddly enough, Redford does not have many lines or verbally revealing moments. In fact, the screenplay is one of the film's weakest points. Yet it is Redford's captivating screen presence...