Word: hometown
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Bethlehem, Nazareth in Holy Battle Come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem? Not if Nazareth can help it. The two towns are engaged in a tug-of-war over the title of Jesus' hometown ? with millions in tourism revenues at stake...
Even when she was just a child on the playground in her hometown of Falls Church, Va., Annina Burns could see that some of her playmates were lacking toys, clothes and often attention. At age 15 she was still troubled by the inequity, and one day found herself turning to the section on human services in the telephone book. She began to dial. Her call to the Embry Rucker Community Shelter, a facility that houses homeless children in nearby Reston, would better not only the lives of hundreds of children but Annina's life as well...
Reasons to Move There: It's Annie Hall's hometown. After hours, computer mavens snowmobile across Lake Wisotta and drink Leinenkugel Beer, a small regional brand founded in 1867. Want to live downtown? An old shoe factory is now a sparkling, affordable apartment building...
...still prefers bronze, but stainless steel can be turned into satisfactorily sensuous shapes, and many customers prefer it because it does not need to be polished. Also, designing in steel gave her a much wider choice of manufacturers--honest ones. She chose Wing Sheng, a company in her old hometown, Hong Kong, which owns factories throughout China...
...time--about small-time crooks (American Buffalo), real-estate hustlers (Glengarry Glen Ross), conniving Hollywood producers (Speed-the-Plow). In The Old Neighborhood, which just opened on Broadway, he has turned inward. In three brief, tenuously related sketches, we watch as Bobby (Peter Riegert), on a visit to his hometown, has a series of encounters with friends and family: an old pal from the neighborhood; his sister Jolly and her taciturn husband; an ex-girlfriend. It's not hard to recognize Bobby as a stand-in for Mamet, the town as Chicago, where he grew up, and the memories...