1.   After graduating from college a few years ago, Marty Beanblossom did something that would once have seemed remarkable for an ambitious young man from this Midwestern prairie town.

2.   Here the open horizon of the Midwestern prairie turns inward, as if compressed within the compass of one life spiraling through space and time.

3.   In his earlier years in Chicago, Wright developed a predominantly horizontal vocabulary of forms for the Midwestern prairie.

4.   It is the Midwestern prairie as the Palumbos would have it, with a fragment of the Berlin Wall looming over the clover.

5.   People who live in the towns on the Midwestern prairie tend to be cheerfully self-effacing about the lack of excitement here.