Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mike has a special gift for putting a human face on issues. A staff member since 1985, he has produced trenchant essays on Michael Dukakis' failed presidential aspirations and a moving account of a hometown reception given the body of a young Marine, one of the first American casualties of the Persian Gulf war. Riley also has a keen eye for the nuances of tangled race relations. Raised in Charlotte, N.C., and educated at Wake Forest University, he worked at the Dispatch in Lexington, N.C., where he covered his first cross burning. Mike then went north to study at Harvard...
...most of the well-cast Peaches lineup (which includes Madonna as a sexually outre outfielder), playing in the league is pure pleasure, a larkish flight from hometown constraints. But Davis, an entrancing mixture of wariness, reserve and quiet gumption, finds something more in it, an authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...
...Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, after local revelers set fires and broke into stores in the wake of the hometown Bulls' winning their second consecutive N.B.A. championship, and in a week when violence erupted in Boston and Belmar, N.J. following rock concerts
They meet morose. Davis (Steve Martin) is an architect unappreciated by his firm and by a staid girlfriend (Dana Delany). He has built the latter a house in their hometown that suits his dreams but not hers. Gwen (Goldie Hawn) is a waitress of dubious but, as she tells it, colorful background. In the course of a one-night stand she learns of the house, standing as empty as her life, and decides to fill up both...
...successful hard-core rapper. Despite very little radio play or MTV time -- his cuts are too hot for the air -- he has produced four gold- selling albums. His fans are mainly young males, but they range through all races and classes, and they can be found from his adopted hometown of Los Angeles to Harlem and Harvard -- where his 1989 album, The Iceberg Freedom of Speech, was No. 1 on the campus charts...