Word: midwesternizing
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Chang said she is aware of her pioneering status as the first female and first Asian-American director of the program, but the position also means returning to her midwestern roots...
...College Hockey America—come nowhere near the caliber of Denver. Should the Pioneers score early or mount a quick, aggressive offensive attack, there’s a strong chance that the Beavers will suffer the same fate they have all year long at the hands of Midwestern powerhouses: high-scoring losses...
Crimson has about $600 million under management and investments in some 20 companies with a presence in China. A dozen other investments have either gone public or been sold to large multinationals. Crimson partner Ian Morton says Midwestern manufacturing executives who once were reticent about moving production offshore now interrupt him to ask for help before he can finish a presentation...
...producer Greg Daniels. "But Steve has a way of playing intelligent, articulate people who make foolish choices. People who on the face of it seem smart but once you look deeper have no clue. Which is cool for comedy that's more subtle." Carell is helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough to use that look to his advantage, to maintain the grownup posture in ridiculous situations; he's the anti--Jim Carrey...
Rips believed that his father was the epitome of all things placidly, plainly Midwestern: "Born in Nebraska, he was Republican, affluent and content." But after Rips' father died, a loose thread appeared: a portfolio of paintings of a naked black woman. Nobody knew who the woman was or anything about the nature of her relationship to the family patriarch. Rips began tugging at the thread, and before long the whole gray flannel suit unraveled...