Word: americana
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...surfers by the millions became its denizens. The story of a teen girl's death--and the pie-eating, deadpan-soliloquy-spouting FBI agent investigating it--carried on the theme from Lynch movies like Blue Velvet of sordid secrets and ancient horrors hidden behind a façade of wholesome Americana, proving that TV could equal or surpass film in its storytelling ambitions. Twin Peaks may have had the shelf life of a freshly poured cup of coffee, but it was damn fine nonetheless...
That's because campaigning in the state is surrounded by such a delicious coating of Americana. Candidates speechify in town squares as skeptical grandparents listen intently and clear-eyed children squirm. Farmers sip coffee in diners as would-be Presidents just happen to amble in. It's all square dancers and hay bales and long, straight roads through amber waves of grain...
Like the Greek owners of many a roadside diner, Indian immigrants have become curators of a nice slice of Americana. In Tulsa, Okla., Jack Patel has lovingly refurbished the neon cactus in front of his Desert Hills Motel, and in Amarillo, Texas, Dipak and Sangita Patel decorated their Route 66 properties with rose gardens. The so-called Patel-motel phenomenon began in the 1970s when immigrants from Gujarat, India--where Patel is a common surname--started applying their business acumen to the U.S. motel market...
...conservative country establishment and its support of quirky artists from John Prine to Jerry Jeff Walker. Those and newer stars like Iris DeMent got a bigger push at her more successful second home, KPIG, where as founder and program director she promoted and popularized the alternative country sound of Americana. She was 57 and had lung cancer...
Although our vices and virtues seem to be independent of religion, there is no dividing Americana from religion. The two are interwoven. Removing the churches from the Boston skyline would be equivalent to creating a New York without skyscrapers. Forgetting Southern gospel songs would be as much a blow to our culture as if we turned our back on jazz and rock ’n’ roll. Cherishing our freedom to hold any or no religion is as important as practicing our freedom of speech. Our history with religion might be filled with bumps and wrong turns...