Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already close to her. Hatfield, who has followed the S.L.A. since the '70s, had published some clues: that she was living in a major Midwestern city, married to a doctor and the mother of three children. Says he: "It didn't seem that hard a thing to find her." The L.A.P.D.. even found a woman resembling Soliah featured prominently on the website of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. "If you're going to be a fugitive, it's not a good idea to put your picture on the Internet," King chuckles. "She's the first picture you look...
Before all 11 victims in the 1997 film Scream 2 have been gored, shot or hacked to death, there's an odd bit of dialogue. A roomful of young Hollywood hotties--playing a roomful of Midwestern college hotties--debate whether film violence causes real violence. "It's directly responsible," says the student played by Josh Jackson (Pacey on Dawson's Creek). "That's so Moral Majority," sneers Cici, the coed played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (a.k.a. Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
...came here not only as a wide-eyed lad, but as a wide-tied lad," Heimert says, referring to the difference in Eastern and Midwestern tie size that branded him a stranger to Cambridge...
...object of this scorn walks into his trailer, where I'm waiting to put a magnifying glass on him, and says, "Hey, what's up?" in a slight Midwestern drawl. Gordon grew up in California, but his parents moved him to Indiana at 14 because he'd been racing midget cars since he was a five-year-old, and there was more action in Indiana...
Religion is not new to the funny papers: Charles Schulz addresses it in Peanuts, although he notes, "I've avoided preaching, because I am a reasonable Midwestern student of the Bible." Bil Keane's The Family Circus portrays church and even heaven, but in a sentimental, child's-eye mode. Hart's religious strips are hard-core gospel. Last year Wiley's Dictionary, B.C.'s font of wacky definitions, featured "cross reference": no words, just three rags nailed to a cross, bearing biblical citations for Christ's suffering. The effect, for someone expecting the usual caveman shtick, is like finding...