Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been able to re-create that homey and down-to-earth traditional atmosphere here at the Daily. As I recently told my dear co-writer Dave, there are few environments in which one can revel so dearly in intellectual enlightenment and simultaneously proper etiquette. For back in Florida, my dear readers, we have been able to resist the wave of ill manners that has swept this chilly, though always dear, environment. Yes. Ma'am on that...
Vilmure clearly is determined to take on that goal. He makes his first novel his own, in theme, voice and imagery. Life in the Land of the Living is set in contemporary Florida--where Vilmure grew up--and follows two brothers as they take off into the oppressive heat of a southern August night. Victims of a broken home, the nameless brothers tell of their experiences with the violent and the gruesome as they wander through their desolate town...
...People did make mistakes in judgment," McCollum said in a telephone interview from his home in Florida. "But there were several significant failures in the style," he said...
...Turbina's tour is Newton North High School, and then she is off to Queens College in New York to meet with students and to continue reading her poetry. If she could add one more stop to her busy agenda, she said she'd "Go to Disneyworld in Florida because every child and every adult dreams about going there...
...Merrill Lynch outlet in Miami with a .357 magnum in his briefcase and killed the branch manager, seriously wounded a broker and then committed suicide. The customer, Arthur Kane, 53, later turned out to be a disbarred Kansas City lawyer and convicted con man who was living in Florida under a witness protection program. Despite the incident's odd circumstances, it crystallized brokers' fears; in one Queens, N.Y., office, brokers reportedly donned buttons that read, I AM NOT THE BRANCH MANAGER...