Word: hometowner
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Halpern, a Buffalo native who draws on his hometown for inspiration, says that his digital stills, “Untitled (With Violence Removed),” are about how we come to view our landscape. “I think that we’ve come to expect terror and the unknown and the unprecedented. These video games stills seem absurd with the soldiers and the act of violence, but when I removed the violence the scene actually seemed much scarier,” he says. “Since 9/11, our imagination has unfortunately become increasingly vivid, for better...
...fought alongside the African-American unit, was among the former resistance fighters who waged that legal battle, and he met Lee last year before filming began. "He talked about commemorating the Buffalo troops, but he didn't say anything about this betrayal," said Costa, reached by phone in his hometown of Pietrasanta, some six miles from St. Anna. "We are indignant about this. I don't understand why he had to open all this up again...
...don’t we just take the T?” I’d suggest with the whiney, sluggish air of a jaded subway commuter, despite the fact that I was actually very far from being one. In my suburban hometown in California, Mitsubishi Galants and Ford Tauruses were the only way to get to Best...
...sitting and waiting,” she said. “You feel bad that you can’t do anything, but we’re lucky.” Marie C. Kodama ’09, who is taking off the semester, was spending time in her hometown of Houston when Ike struck. She said that even in her relatively undamaged neighborhood in west Houston, dozens of trees are strewn across the street, and many streetlights are bent in the wrong direction. “Almost all of Houston is congregating in the two big malls because they?...
...election cycle. With half of the precincts reporting, Kerry was leading Edward O’Reilly, a lawyer and former firefighter, by a two-to-one margin. While Kerry carried virtually every city and town in the Commonwealth, O’Reilly ran strong in places such as his hometown of Gloucester, where Kerry won by only a few points. “There are unfinished fights that we must win, and I want to return to Washington to make sure every American has the same great health care that I receive as a senator,” Kerry said...