Word: midwesternizing
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...months now, police in Illinois have joined forces with officers from other Midwestern cities, federal agents and even Mexico to chase a rabid killer - a silent but deadly assassin that has so far claimed at least 70 lives in and around Chicago, as many as 200 others in the Detroit area and dozens more in states from Missouri to New Jersey. But the suspect isn't a serial killer; it's a lethal brand of the drug fentanyl, sometime mixed with an already potent batch of heroin, or even cocaine or alcohol...
...Side by side, Jean and Reiss have a comedic Penn and Teller-esque look. Bill L. Oakley ’88, who was on the Lampoon and later wrote and produced for “The Simpsons,” describes them as “a tall gooney Midwestern quiet type and a short swarthy funny bubbly...
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was the sleeper hit of 2005. It tells the bittersweet, perfectly observed story about Lee, a quiet Midwestern girl who tries, with decidedly mixed results, to fit in at a breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list...
...decided to hand-pick our successors for this column. The competition was thick like Serena Williams’ booty, but we’re proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Bell Lap Contest: D.A. Wallach ’07 and Peter Martinez ’07. This Midwestern duo impressed us with their insightful guide to juicing graduate students, which revealed that the term “TF” originally stood for “Titty Fucking.”And so, that’s all for us. As we described in our first column...
...American Dreamz.” In the last round, we see them nervously singing along with Omar, hoping he doesn’t mess up— as one of the terrorists mutters, “Go Omar, go,” he seems more akin to a Midwestern housewife addicted to Kelly Clarkson than a bloodthirsty fanatic. The best character in the movie is Iqbal (played by Tony Yalda), Omar’s flamboyant cousin—a Middle Eastern second-generation immigrant who has become completely Americanized in the Beverly Hills mold. Weitz knows he?...