Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TAKE ONE man with a vision. Surround him with a core group of talented musicians and songwriters. And have them work together in a Midwestern city to create a sound. Apply the sound to various young occasionally talented unknowns whose images and every move can be manipulated...
Take Rusty Sabich: intelligent, attractive, a son of immigrant parents now risen to the post of chief deputy prosecuting attorney in midwestern Kindle County. He is married to his college sweetheart; he plays baseball with his son in the park; he is well-respected by his associates. He possesses, professionally and personally, the trappings of success...
...Walter Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years, but his high- pitched Midwestern twang still rang loud in every debate over economic policy, commanding the respect even of Republican economists who disagreed with his Democratic Keynesianism. Says Alan Greenspan, chairman-designate of the Federal Reserve Board and Heller's longtime colleague on TIME's Board of Economists: "Walter was clearly...
...wouldn't believe it! There are Americans all over the place. We heard practically nothing but Midwestern accents at the Tower of London, and today, on the Champs-Elysees here in Paris, these neat French teenagers were walking around wearing badges that said I SPEAK ENGLISH.These people really love Americans...
...owlish Simon, 58, hopes his Midwestern base will translate into an impressive showing at the Iowa caucuses. He expects his unabashed support for "traditional" Democratic Party liberalism to separate him from the pack of "neoliberals" chasing the nomination. Said Simon forthrightly: "I am not a neo anything. I am a Democrat...