Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clad Gary Poole led his disco dance troupe through a series of exotic routines. A male dancer hauled a woman, clad in a white jumpsuit, around the stage on a leash. After the dance was over, Anderson remarked to the 400 partygoers: "I'm guilty of a certain Midwestern naiveté. I've never seen anything quite like this before...
Such anti-Big Government commercials are now playing twice daily on 465 radio stations in 14 Western and Midwestern states. In addition, 210,000 I'M MAD TOO, EDDIE stickers have been put on hard hats and bumpers from Denver to Houston. Texas oil company executives even wear pins carrying the slogan on their lapels. Just about everywhere he goes these days, people ask Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Harrell Edmund (Eddie) Chiles, 70: "Are you mad today, Eddie...
...repairs, he sends it back electrified. Marvy, 70, has been in the business for 55 years, and he has been up to date every step of the way. This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century...
This is a tale of two houses and four sisters. The time is the early 1920s, and the place is Midwestern America. The houses, with their gables and gingerbread curlicues, are hopscotch close. In their backyards unfolds a human comedy that is warm, antic, wise and utterly endearing...
...asterisk category, however, Reagan found out just how flimsy a lot of his support was. To win it back, he will have to dance farther and farther to the right--a trick that even if successful in New Hampshire and Florida, could spell disaster in Massachusetts and some midwestern states...