Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assassination revelation, it was a revelation of another kind. In telling his life story, of how he wound up in the Carousel Club in 1963, the Name was telling a story of an American life -- of an America -- far different from the one I'd known in my suburban hometown...
...Never mind that Campeau's quixotic takeover of the U.S. department-store chains Allied and Federated led to bankruptcy for both, or that even his own holding company ousted him from its chairmanship. The movie's makers acknowledge that theirs is a "generous" view of Campeau as an enterprising hometown hero who made fortunes for others before falling victim to a nefarious "Wall Street milieu...
...seem to) sigh with longing for a return of the bad old days, point out that the team is good this year and alumni want to see it. Yale tickets are not made available to the non-alumni Boston public, but the local newspapers have built up the hometown boys as the heroes...
...Rudenstine, who steps into a role that demands setting far-reaching academic agendas as well as fundraising, networking and public relations on an international scale must set an example. When Rudenstine came to Massachusetts last spring, he quickly noted that Cambridge is not Princeton. His former hometown did not have the same kind of strong grassroots community feel to challenge the Ivy League leader. So far, Neil R. Rudenstine has done well in adapting to a more cantankerous kind of community. The word about town is that he honestly likes people and has mingled well among Cantabrigians. We wish...
Danny Barker knows all about the fundamentals. At 82, the jazz banjoist and guitarist has seen a lot of changes in his hometown since he went north, played with Louis Armstrong and toured with the Cab Calloway orchestra. But the fundamentals don't budge. "New Orleans people are unique," he says, sitting in his shirt-sleeves on the front porch of his white shotgun house. "Somebody goin' to jail? Give him a party. Somebody died? Give him a party. They'd throw a party for a dog's birthday. Here you have a million people raised with a habit...