Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there I was, like a thousand other graduates from 26 states on a summer weekend, hurrying toward my tiny (pop. 2,074) hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, to say farewell to the two weary high school buildings so long the heart and soul of that small patch of prairie. All living graduates out of the 3,819 given diplomas over the past 85 years had been summoned...
...country music, Mary-Chapin Carpenter would be a member of its target market. An Ivy Leaguer (Brown) who grew up in exotic climes (Tokyo, Princeton) as the daughter of a publishing executive (Chapin Carpenter, a Life sachem), she played for tips in Washington clubs and made her first album, Hometown Girl, in 1987. The sound was clean and folky; the voice suggested Judy Collins after a long bus trip from Richmond to Baton Rouge. The album got airplay on college stations and public radio, but it wasn't until her record company began promoting her to country radio that Carpenter...
Bush declared his trip to Houston a return to his hometown. As he approached the podium, strains of "Deep in the Heart of Texas" poured over the loudspeakers while Houston Oilers cheerleaders waved their pom-poms frantically...
...world of the 1980s. How could it be otherwise? The twenty-year-old himself declares that "my memories begin with Ronald Reagan." But his optimistic dreams of success don't match the grim reality of a great idea gone sour. The Plants, the nuclear weapons facilities that made his hometown boom with prosperity, are now all but shut down, spreading a virus of unemployment and decay...
...carefree childhood on a British Columbia hippie commune, of his vacationto Europe, of his alcoholic, get-rich-quick stepfather, Dan. like the Chapters they comprise, they follow each other in rapid-fire bursts. But what chiefly propels the plot is the choice Tyler must make between his hometown girlfriend, Anna-Louise, and his European summer fling, Stephanie...