Word: midwesternizing
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Gore, he said, could lose Florida, but by winning large Midwestern states like Missouri, still...
...moves on, pitching him a story she wants to do for NBC News about Johnson's special assistant. "We want to follow Jack Valenti all over with whatever he does and take pictures," she says, trying to make it sound fun. With her faint Midwestern accent it sounds like she's delivering a line in a musical. "No," Johnson comes back quickly. "You'll have more jealousy here than I can deal with now." She tries again for several more minutes, but Johnson shoots her down...
...thinks that a super-national system of regulations would mean black U.N. helicopters sweeping down over little Midwestern towns, forcing them to comply with laws supported by other countries," he said...
...week's presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, several hundred mourners massed in a nearby park in the chill air. Condolences filled talk radio. An officeholder since 1960, when he was 26, Carnahan was a beloved two-term Governor. A self-styled New Democrat, he had some of the Midwestern twang and even a bit of the look of Harry Truman, who once held the Senate seat Carnahan was seeking. His death not only cut short his career but dimmed Democratic hopes as well. Al Gore's shot at carrying this battleground state is weakened now. So are the Democrats...
Bellow's reputation is now so immense that younger readers may not realize how unlikely his success once seemed, at least to others. Atlas is good at portraying the obstacles the literary establishment placed in the path of a Midwestern Jew. When Bellow graduated from Northwestern University, the English-department chairman told him, "I wouldn't recommend that you study English. You weren't born to it." And this was intended as friendly advice. Bellow later resented being labeled a Jewish writer, not because he abjured his faith but because he found attempts to pigeonhole him and his work offensive...