Word: midwesternizing
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...Corrigan.” “ACME” contains despicably wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...
...somebody who got along with everyone, who was obviously very bright but not aggressive,” Rowe, who is also a Crimson editor, said earlier this month. “He had a Midwestern reserve about not showing off how smart...
...somebody who got along with everyone, who was obviously very bright but not aggressive,” Rowe, who is also a Crimson editor, said earlier this month. “He had a Midwestern reserve about not showing off how smart...
...same. The classic Disney thoroughfare of quaint buildings and gas streetlights has been lovingly re-created from the original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which...
What is it exactly that we see in Grant Wood's stern old farmer and the woman at his side with her strange, sidelong glance? Is this an image of enduring Midwestern probity or a satire of small-town small-mindedness? Wood, who recruited his 30-year-old sister and his 62-year-old dentist to pose for him, preferred to insist that his interest was just painterly. This book traces the impact and changing meaning of the iconic image through its 75-year history...