Word: anytown
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...ANYTOWN...
...family spent 39.5% of its food dollar on restaurants in 1983, up from 33.1% in 1970. The typical American now eats out 3.7 times a week. From the trendy bistros of Manhattan's East Side to the ubiquitous "franchise row" that lines the main drag on the outskirts of Anytown, U.S.A., eating...
...pieces of Boston’s own Sam Adams, not Corona. There is a part of me that still wants to feel something distinctive about the town that I’m walking through. I want to know that it is unique, it is different, and it is not Anytown...
Hundreds of friendly, ambitious Tracy Flicks annually make Annenberg their playground for showcasing their personality. Just like the buxom, pixie-haired starlet in Election, they once bounded down high school hallways in Anytown, USA, touting the handmade student council buttons they hoped would lead to political glory...
Local color adds tremendously to the novel; rather than set the tale in a generic Anytown, U.S.A., Montgomery places the action square in Baltimore. The reader will be delighted by small details like the Light Rail transit line and Dick’s Sporting Goods in Hunt Valley Mall (where one can actually buy paintball gear). Institutions and landmarks like the Baltimore Orioles and the Gunpowder River are not simply bandied about to lend an air of authenticity. Attention to such detail is crucial, as Montgomery uses his familiarity with fisherman’s lingo and military life to good...