Word: hometown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people in front of Steve Grubbs looked slightly embarrassed and maybe a little put out as he preached. Here was another chapter in the book about political peddlers come to slicker the rubes. As I watched this scene in my hometown, I think I knew who was being slickered. Next day a high school friend, Yvonne Schildberg, a Republican activist, told me, "I went to be polite. I'm for Elizabeth Dole." Another friend said, "This straw poll is really an insult to anyone's intelligence...
...Jersey is undergoing a renaissance of sorts. The "of sorts" refers to the fact that we don't really have anything to bring back, or, in the Latin, "naissance." But now we've got Lauryn Hill singing about her hometown, South Orange, and The Sopranos celebrating our family values, and New Jersey movie director Kevin Smith causing problems for both the Roman Catholic Church and Disney. There are even I LOVE NJ T shirts for sale at Newark Airport. I know airports in every state have those...
...spent a week back at V.B.S. in my hometown this summer, happy to see the little church being host to 65 kids each evening from 6 to 8 (a modern accommodation to busy daytime schedules). The kids still sing and do lessons and crafts, and the Kool-Aid still flows. Thirty adults, all with jobs and families, volunteer their time to help teach in the program, which is offered at no charge to any child who walks in the door...
Long, Ken Burns-ish shots of grass and Ella Fitzgerald songs seem bizarrely out of place in this documentary of a teenager's murder, and yet such embellishments make it no less compelling. The film retraces the life of Teena Brandon, who in her early adolescence left her Nebraska hometown and began posing as a boy, Brandon Teena. As Brandon, she won the hearts of many girls but died tragically, killed by two male friends who were furious that they'd been duped. Interviews with her killers (one is on death row) provide a chilling portrait of intolerance...
...victory can be expected to propel Armstrong?s name and the cause of cycling, both previously little followed in the United States, to new levels of recognition. Already a victory parade in his hometown of Austin awaits, as well as a high-profile round of television and commercial appearances. In fact, Nike ads have begun airing touting Armstrong as the "first dead man" to win the Tour de France, a slogan the cyclist reportedly loves. Most important, though, Armstrong has demonstrated to cancer patients around the world that the dreaded disease can be vanquished ? and then some. "The message...