Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before entering a local pageant in Spring 1995, her only pageant experience was representing her hometown in a spring festival during high school...
...strangely serene and businesslike display of exultation. Shortly after midnight in Little Rock, Arkansas, having achieved what seemed the inevitable, William Jefferson Clinton stood in the glow of his happy hometown crowd as only the seventh Democratic President to be elected to a second term, and began, "My fellow Americans, we have work to do, and that's what this election is all about." He must have used the word work two dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation...
...directors' (very) short list of favorite illustrators. "He can do incredibly richly detailed pieces of art in one day," says TIME art director Arthur Hochstein. "He's considered a modern-day Norman Rockwell because he can poke fun without being meanspirited." Now folks in Payne's hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, can see what the art directors are raving about. The Cincinnati Art Museum is holding an exhibition of 30 of Payne's drawings, including three of the five covers he has done for TIME...
...January 1995, is one of the fastest-growing networks on cable. Burns himself is juggling several new projects, including a series of historical profiles (the first, on Thomas Jefferson, will air in February) and a 12 1/2-hour history of jazz, and he wants to set up workshops in his hometown of Walpole, New Hampshire, to help aspiring Ken Burnses learn everything from fund raising to "how we work with scholars and how we adjudicate very thorny issues of historical 'fact...
...town was founded in 1855 when Elbridge and Mary Ayer, two natives of Harvard, Mass., bought 400 acres here and named the settlement after their hometown. Mr. Ayer later offered free land if the railroads leading to Chicago agreed to make every train stop at Harvard; the town blossomed...