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Word: midwestern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City's Times Square on New Year's Eve could conceivably look like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, with different groups of terrorists - unaware of each other and motivated by passions as diverse as Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalism and midwestern right-wing conspiracy theories - converging to spread bloody mayhem at ground zero of America's millennium celebration. It's a truly scary scenario, in which acolytes of monsters as different as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden engage in a kind of terrorism Olympics with innocent New Yorkers as their cannon fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: A Nation on Full Alert | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best Television Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Chicago have the fortitude to keep its cars in the garage? I think so. The last time I was there, literally hundreds of nearly life-size fiber-glass cows, each decorated by a different artist, were displayed on the sidewalks of Michigan Boulevard. Given the traditional cattle sensitivity of Midwestern boosters afraid of having their cities dismissed as cow towns, I told my hosts that a city in Illinois that festoons its most elegant shopping area with bovine creatures is not lacking in the self-confidence department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Tall World, After All | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...would appear that Bradley, a brilliant Midwestern intellectual, is the tall man's Adlai Stevenson. Bradley even has Stevenson's famous "egghead." MARGARET JANE KEPHART Boulder, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1999 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...students, maybe less goading and cruelty than people have come to expect from this age, there are a couple of possible reasons. Many of these kids have known one another since grade school, and grown up in a tolerant time. Maybe Columbine taught them something. Maybe small-town, Midwestern kids are just nicer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday: 10:36 A.M. First Lunch | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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