Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Donato harbors dreams of one day wearing the Black-and-Gold, he is still aware of the importance of college. But growing up as a hometown boy, he never even thought about attending Harvard...
...with all the brio of Brecht on a sunny day; his style is comic, ironic, daringly distanced. The girlhood scenes are played for easygoing farce and shot in black and white. Then the film bursts into snapshot color when Sonja falls in love with her teacher (Robert Giggenbach). Her hometown's streets and churches are stylized back projections. The Nasty Girl moves like an eccentric dancer, ever shifting its pace and mood, never losing its poise...
...group formed in high school in the Long Island town of Cold Spring Harbor, the stomping grounds of Billy Joel. Though the band can't be the first rock success story from their hometown, they can be novel. Their determination to reject the music world norm of bands who create a false, flashy image for themselves is more impressive than their Ivy League background. They make no effort to conceal or distort their clean-cut image, an image which is a natural extension of the band's honest sound and sincere lyrics. And it is refreshing once in a while...
...nobody else will let you forget about your failure either. Whenever you visit your hometown, an old woman will point you out in the street and whisper to whomever walks by, "See that one? Went to the big city, up North, and won a big, fancy fellowship. And you know what? Durn fool never amounted to nuthin...
...solution that the six-term Democrat has relied on for the past 13 years is raising some eyebrows in his hometown of Barre, and causing Cambridge politicos to choose sides once more in one of the city's perennial battles...