Word: midwesternizing
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...this and future work, Bly is credited with helping to introduce into poetry a fresh voice that celebrates the lyricism of Midwestern vernacular...
...night. And XV Beacon's most expensive suite is $1,500. Yet suites at the Hotel Oceana start at a mere $325 a night, and rooms at the Soniat House can be had for as low as $195. But book early, particularly if you have in mind some Midwestern elegance and a lunchtime massage at the Claridge's Swan. Here are some more details on a selection of standouts...
These are pictures that have drifted back to us like bodies dumped in a river. They make sickening but essential viewing. (Another new book, Strange Fruit, by David Margolick, shows how even Billie Holiday's great antilynching song once made audiences squirm.) There were lynchings in the Midwestern and Western states, mostly of Asians, Mexicans, Native Americans and even whites. But it was in the South that lynching evolved into a semiofficial institution of racial terror against blacks. All across the former Confederacy, blacks who were suspected of crimes against whites--or even "offenses" no greater than failing to step...
...Archer Daniels Midland: In some Midwestern states, ethanol, pioneered by ADM, now costs 25% less than gasoline. Now about those ethanol subsidies...
...Cherry Falls: Now this is a high concept. A serial killer stalks a small Midwestern town, butchering young victims who seem to share no common characteristic. And then--gasp!--the link is discovered. They're all virgins! To end the killer's spree, then, there's only one solution: Throw a sex party! All the town's teenagers get together for well-organized orgy, but the killer shows up just in time. As long as they don't cast Jennifer Love Hewitt, we have ourselves a winner...