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...went from a physics concentration to some other disciplines and then ended up in computer science as a vocational sort of thing. I was doing so badly that I had to take some time off. I had no money and I didn't want to go back to my hometown in Arkansas. So, I stayed in Boston. I was really poor and I didn't have anything to do, so I learned to play guitar really well. When I got back to school, rather than worrying about my classes, I spent more time hanging out with my friends. Especially since...
Audience members cheered loudest for Scott Davis, a two-time U.S. national champion who performed to a rock version of "The Star Spangled Banner," and Jennifer Kirk, a hometown skater with Olympic aspirations...
...setting is once again Leechfield, Karr's fictionally named but vividly evoked hometown in East Texas, about a 30-minute drive from the Gulf of Mexico: "Distant refinery flames flapped against the apricot sky." Karr's parents, whose Wagnerian domestic travails thundered so consistently throughout The Liars' Club, have receded to the background of this book as she tries to find her own way in the world. That fadeaway is understandable but still a shame, since Pete and Charlie Karr seem interestingly unique, and teenage anxieties...
Aucoin's iconoclasm has long met with resistance, and his encounter with the N.R.A. is not the first time his life has been threatened. This week he will receive the key to his hometown of Lafayette, La., but growing up there in the 1970s--openly gay, conspicuously tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.) and unapologetically nonconformist--he was "the No. 1 pariah at school," recalls Aucoin, now 38. "Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker." He dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried...
After recording stints in Paris and Copenhagen, the band finished up Kid A in a newly built studio not far from its hometown of Oxford, England. All the members of Radiohead grew up around Oxford, where they attended Abingdon School, a private all-boys school. It was there they discovered a shared love of music and began performing together. Nigel Hunter, Yorke's art teacher at Abingdon, says the aspiring rocker was strong-willed even then: "He was very independent. He wasn't someone who was swayed by a crowd...