Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote short stories for the New York Daily News and twice, as the Depression deepened, founded black literary journals. But the Harlem Renaissance had lost its early brilliance, and at heart, West was less a New Yorker than a black version of a proper Bostonian. Her father, who was born a slave, had built a thriving produce business in Boston and was prosperous enough to buy a summer home in Oak Bluffs. By 1943 West had moved there to live. Five years later, her first novel, The Living Is Easy, was set in the affluent world of proud black achievers...
...other hairdresser, the trendy (and busty) Barbara DeMarco (Sarah Newhouse), provides a great counter to Tony. Her acid retorts and nasal Bostonian accent charm even the most cynical of the cultural elite...
...Bostonian accent is just one of the show's elements tailored for the Beantown audience. Boston's Shear Madness is one of three productions currently enjoying an extended run of this fast-food theater phenomenon across America...
...They [crowds] are a lot tamer," said Andrea B. Ellin, a native Bostonian who has attended this event for many years. "Two years ago you'd have a party at every corner; now it's more commercial and political...
...classic Bostonian--obnoxious," said Dan L. Stone '96. "That was one of the draws...