Word: lewiston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization presents at its clubs. If, however, as you state, the company has managed to resurrect the legendary Muddy Waters, who passed away in 1983, please inform it that all is forgiven. And a table for two, please, close to the band. RICH and SHARON SCHNEIDER Blues Beat Lewiston, New York...
...schools vary in size from Mr. Bernard'sSchool of Hair Fashion in Lewiston, Maine (withexpected annual loans of $45,000), toHarvard-Radcliffe, which has annual loans ofapproximately $45 million...
...issue of Newsweek contained a particularly transparent example of this sort of journalism, if it can be called that. In the ominously titled "Homophobia: What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Gay?" writer John Leland paints a picture of the mid-sized town of Lewiston, Maine that positively oozes with condescension and posturing...
...article's condescending portraits of the town's residents--that is, of those on the wrong side of the issue--can be downright insulting. Speaking of one leading opponent of Lewiston's gay-rights ordinance, the reporter believes he speaks for all his readers: "You want Paul Madore to play the villain, to become the Jason Robards character made flesh." Does this sound like respect for the "gray areas" of morality...
...points to Paul Madore's candidacy for the state senate as evidence that "progress can move backward as well as forward," whatever that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...