Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fueled not by the fact that Karen has decided to spend four formative years in the Midwest, though that's scary in itself. Nor does my anxiety stem from the fact that my sister's roommate happens to be named--no joke--Bambi and comes from an obscure hamlet somewhere in Indiana. Indiana is actually a good school, especially for the performing arts, which is why Karen chose the place. And Bambi, like her namesake the deer, is reportedly very sweet...
There is not even that semblance of normality in the village of Celinac, some miles farther south. The hamlet is officially off-limits to all outsiders. A decree issued by the Celinac municipality gives the Muslim population a "special status" similar to that of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. All Muslims must observe a 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. Muslims are "not allowed to stay in the street, in restaurants and other public places." Muslims are forbidden to swim in the rivers, to fish or hunt, to use or drive motor vehicles, to be in groups of more than...
...Idaho white separatist Randy Weaver seemed willing to die for his piece of land too, as he holed up in his cabin near the hamlet of Naples, surrounded by FBI agents, federal marshals and local police officers. Authorities put his mountaintop redoubt under surveillance after he failed to appear for a February 1991 trial on charges of selling two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent. Two weeks ago, Weaver's 13-year-old son Samuel and federal marshal William Degan were killed in a gun battle as lawmen approached the cabin. Prosecutors charged Weaver's comrade Kevin Harris...
...annals of American art. A painter of genuine talent, he suffered most of his life from the consequences of being born black in a deeply racist America -- and, it seems, from a sense of alienation from other blacks because he was half white. He came from a cotton hamlet in South Carolina and proved himself a brilliant art student in Chicago. Like other black artists and writers, he found refuge from America in Europe: first in Paris (on a scholarship in the 1920s), then in the south of France and finally -- having met and fallen in love with Holcha Krake...
Robb lives deep in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains, off a dirt road that winds through the defunct hamlet of Zinc, past dilapidated mobile homes, rusting farm equipment and rocky pastureland. Chickens and goats pause in the road along Sugar Orchard Creek, and neighbors glare warily at unfamiliar visitors. The Grand Wizard's home, a weathered cedar dwelling and several ramshackle outbuildings, is built on 100 forested acres. Inside, Robb's pleasant wife, Muriel, prepares dinner while Oprah chatters away on a TV set in the cluttered living room. One son, Jason, 18, ponders his homework; another son, Nathan, 21, hauls...