1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number21, page10:
[…] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor evenmore nuclear andapple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “IsTom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, inBBC[1]:
Hanks has often been called our generation's answer toJames Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness andapple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.
2021 April 8,Margaret Atwood, “‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom andapple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town.
