Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill went on to become the smooth talk-show candidate; Roger remains, in some ways, Bill turned inside out, the soap-opera version. It took just the slightest prodding from Povich for Roger to break down at the thought of his violent father. "I still go up in my hometown in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and when I happen to be home on my birthday, I go and visit the gravesite and talk to him," he said, tears filling his eyes. Then he shook his head, trying to hold it all in, letting go a tiny "Oouuu," then slapping his knees...
There have been three jazz trumpet players who could be called, with no second thought, great: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy and Miles Davis. Satch played a sweet, raucous sound that kept its roots strong in the gumbo of hometown New Orleans. Dizzy knew how to nurse a tune too, but his armor-piercing solos tore those roots right up and replanted them farther north, in the new welter of urban angst. But his music, always intrepid, remained fleet. It was spontaneous reinvention in rhythm, a kind of fun that tweaked the far edges but never crossed them...
Take the national press, for example. Strewn about the city's finer hotels (both of them), the hundreds of reporters here are trying to find out what this state--and Clinton's current hometown of Little Rock--are all about...
...Woodland Hills, Calif. native went to thebilling office in Holyoke Center, where he saidrecords showed his address had been changed to anaddress in Houston, Shah's hometown...
...film's fantastic animation lives up to the standards Disney studios has set for itself in its past few animated movies. Aladdin lends itself well to the romantic tale of the hometown boy who makes good. Aladdin falls in love with the feisty and beautiful Princess Jasmine and uses the three wishes the Genie (Robin Williams) grants him to remake himself into the man he thinks Jasmine wants. In this feature, however, as in other Disney offerings, what's in the heart is what really counts...