Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also the one figure of reckless imagination. Smoothly and confidently, she guides the taut mechanism of the movie's plot. She creates between herself and Ned a sexual attraction that erases the past and suggests terrible new options. And she knows, as a young woman whose Midwestern memories are as sordid as her Palm Beach present is posh, that she must sweat for what she wants. The film and the other characters sweat with her. Perspiration stains the satin sheets as Ned and Matty make love; and after, there is dew on the down of her back...
About two hours from Detroit and Cleveland, past Toledo's Soul City House of God and Ribs Ltd., lies Lucas County Recreation Center, a humble Midwestern oasis of baseball, hot dogs and organ music, where the Mud Hens struggle with the likes of Pawtucket and Tidewater in a battle to make the International League playoffs. And people starved for the national pastime and disinterested in the major league squabbling are lining up to watch these Mud Hens play...
...Harvard, steadfastly maintain that their academic integrity has not been compromised. While it is still much too early to determine the success or failure of agreements like the recent one with DuPont. Harvard officials point to a tie formed seven years ago between the University and a large midwestern chemical firm, as an example of a successful linkage between a corporation and an academic institution...
Visiting a Midwestern hog farm last week on a three-week U.S. tour, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, groaned with gratitude. "I have received so many gifts," said he, "I may have to open an Iowa room when I get back to Lambeth Palace in London." Runcie, 59, certainly had his hands full with the 40-lb. Berkshire maiden who seemed intent on hogging the spotlight. The gift was nothing to snoot at - as a gentleman farmer back home, Runcie oversees 60 prize Berkshires of his own. The latest addition to the Archbishop's porcine parish listened beatifically...
Miami of Ohio club president Terry Jones says that his team's strongest asset is "a really excellent set of backs,"--with an experienced fly half and fullback anchoring the line. At an estimated 185 pounds per man, the Midwestern forwards are likely to be the smallest pack in the competition. Jones added that "the team has been able to make up for the lack of a tall jumper and average set play by hustling and playing in the loose well...