Word: alleys
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DIED. DAVE GRAUE, 75, cartoonist who drew the syndicated strip Alley Oop, about a cheerful time-traveling Neanderthal; in a car accident; near Flat Rock, N.C. Graue attended high school with the daughter of V.T. Hamlin, who launched Alley Oop in 1933 and turned the strip over to Graue when he retired...
...study in contrasts, Mohammad Ichsan, deputy commander of Laskar Jihad's forces in Sulawesi, exudes a high-energy rage that reverberates in his hoarse voice, as he leans forward on the edge of a chair in the group's headquarters, a small house at the end of a narrow alley in Poso. Ichsan also denies that his forces are on the offensive. The town, a once thriving fishing port famous for its carving of ebony wood harvested from nearby forests, is now shuttered and virtually deserted but for Laskar fighters. Even police and army troops stay close to their base...
...says Hana, her face clouding. "I hate them. They're so strict." Lately she's run away for longer periods, sometimes sleeping at her friend Aya's house, sometimes partying for days on end. Hana brightens and nudges Aya, pointing to a few dyed-blond punks slouching down the alley. "Hey, how about those guys?" Aya shakes her head. They go back to studying their photos, waiting for a better-looking option. Anything to avoid going home...
...were already rampant in books, in movies and especially on TV, to an extent that suggests the real-world longing for change may be deep-seated enough to last. When it comes to changed priorities and renewed purpose, popular culture has been there, done that and bought the bowling alley...
That bowling alley is the setting of TV's Ed, in which a New York City lawyer quits his high-powered firm to move home to Stuckeyville, Ohio, woo his high school crush and buy the local Stuckeybowl lanes. Today half the stressed-out skyscraper workers in Manhattan have a comparable escape fantasy, but Ed and its newly resonant theme of fleeing to the past debuted more than a year ago. And we have seen similar homecoming stories on Providence (L.A. plastic surgeon moves home, works in clinic), Judging Amy (big-city lawyer moves home, becomes a judge) and this...