Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West. Does she pronounce merry and marry alike or differently? If alike, she comes from the upper Midwest. Does she pronounce morning and mourning alike or differently? If differently, she is from the Atlantic Coast, the Southeast or Texas. I suspect that her speech may be either Floridian or Midwestern...
...there are still affinities among artists. What are the main ones here? To begin with, realist painting-but with a twist. The plain declarative style of tonal realism, whose American master is Philip Pearlstein, is hardly in evidence, although there are some exquisitely rendered pastel studies of gray, tumblng Midwestern skies by William Beckman at the Hirshhorn, and the Whitney has some beautifully observed images by William Bailey (still life) and Rackstraw Downes (panoramic landscape). The best figurative work at the Guggenheim is by the oldest of the "emergent" artists, the 63-year-old West Coast movie critic and former...
This much is certain: oranges are freezing in Florida, winter wheat on the parched Midwestern plains is threatened by drought, schools are closed in Boston because of natural gas shortages, heatless New York City residents are being forced to seek shelter in municipally heated armories, and barges are running aground as the water level drops in the less-mighty-than-usual Mississippi. Anywhere one looked, it was too cold or too hot, and nearly everywhere...
...Many Midwestern farmers, still suffering from the crop losses caused by the summer drought, now gaze forlornly over their bare, frozen land. In Minnesota, where about 5 in. of snow should have fallen by now, only a light powder covers the earth. Says Ed Grady of the state's farm bureau: "Our concern is that the frost may penetrate the ground more deeply than it would with a snow cover," thus damaging crops planted this winter. "This is about as dry as I can remember," observes Eldon Merklin, an Oklahoma farmer who planted 1,200 acres of wheat last...
...term Soviet plans for increasing meat production. For the second year in a row, the Soviets in 1980 had a mediocre crop. Moreover, while the government has so far been able to buy sufficient grain for bread, it is having increasing difficulty finding enough for animal feed. Says one Midwestern grain-industry analyst: "That situation is more difficult [for them] than during the first nine months of the embargo...