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...influenced any member of the Academy [SHOW BUSINESS, March 25]. To read that there were malicious smear campaigns behind the awards was disturbing. I believe people in Hollywood care more about the honesty of their performances than they do about media stories on the films. Even if, with my Midwestern mentality, I am misled to believe in the integrity of those who make movies, I prefer to remain as I am. JOANNA J. CHENEY Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 15, 2002 | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...have absolutely no idea why women so wholly embrace Oprah's sanctimonious declarations of common sense. So I grabbed a Midwestern phone book and selected a woman at random, much the same way Larry King seems to select wives. The first person I reached was Lisa Davis of Des Moines, Iowa. After I explained that I really wasn't selling anything, I had a nice conversation with Lisa, a 42-year-old grandmother of two and cashier at Casey's General Store. Like many Americans, Davis gets her news from TIME, only this time she got it more directly than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Oprah | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...have absolutely no idea why women so wholly embrace Oprah's sanctimonious declarations of common sense. So I grabbed a Midwestern phone book and selected a woman at random, much the same way Larry King seems to select wives. The first person I reached was Lisa Davis of Des Moines, Iowa. After I explained that I really wasn't selling anything, I had a nice conversation with Lisa, a 42-year-old grandmother of two and cashier at Casey's General Store. Like many Americans, Davis gets her news from TIME, only this time she got it more directly than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Oprah | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

Shot in a honey-colored, Midwestern-feeling prairie, page after page of the spread in question captured doe-eyed lovers presumably doing what Midwestern doe-eyed lovers do all day—absolutely nothing...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: See Jane. See Jane Sit. | 1/23/2002 | See Source »

Everyone Else Applying For This Seminar on Genevan Sculpture Went to Boarding School in Switzerland: You Hayseed Midwestern Bitch...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rejected Freshman Seminars | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

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