Word: flint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just a dude hanging out in vintage polyester basketball shorts is that every once in a while, comedy spews out of him in extemporized, perfectly paced paragraphs. Here, for instance, is Ferrell's description of his character in Semi-Pro: "I'm Jackie Moon, owner-coach-player of the Flint Tropics, but I'm also a one-hit-wonder guy. I have a hit song called Love Me Sexy that I sing at every home game. Then I do the player introductions after I sing my song. Then I introduce myself and take my cape...
...north just play well together. First came megaband Broken Social Scene, the New York Yankees of Canuck indie rock. Then the infectious New Pornographers trickled south, displacing deserving American-born power pop peddlers. And now there’s Swan Lake, set to make Williamsburg, Brooklyn look like Flint, Michigan...
Highway 50 runs straight as a pool cue from Pueblo, Colo., through 23 miles of rangeland and piñon flats before offering an exit to the scruffy little city of Florence (pop. 3,795). Like Flint, Mich., or Orlando, Fla., Florence is a company town. The industry here is prisoners, and the company is the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Twenty years ago, the people of surrounding Fremont County ponied up $160,000 to buy some open land outside Florence, hoping to entice the bureau to build a prison complex as a way to boost the town's economy. Corrections...
...escape from nostrils in the cool early-morning air. Burton points out a rust-colored old shack. Surprisingly sturdy, it was built by Aboriginal workers out of anthills and spinifex. "This is where they'd sleep when they weren't camping out," says Burton. Those stockmen may have been flint hard, he says, but they were also well looked after. They were paid in provisions-sugar, tea, butter, flour and meat. Their kids were often sent to private schools, the fees paid by wealthy pastoralists. "The [late '60s] equal-pay decision mucked up the old system," says Burton. "It made...
...Amount Jacqueline Williams of Flint, Mich., owed her energy company when her power was shut off for seven hours last week...