Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waterworks operator for a rural township water authority. By night, he manages Twirly Top, a popular local drive-in restaurant...
...survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips of a semiautomatic handgun into hallowed air and young bodies. Now the Wedgwood Baptist Church, on the day of Fort Worth?s annual "See You at the Pole" festival (in which teen Baptists at local schools meet outside for group prayers at the flagpole), is the latest sanctuary to be profaned by random savagery. And Texas is the latest state to wonder whether the guns on the nation?s streets are too many...
...highlight of the evening was a debate about Healy's contract, according to local political analyst Robert Winters...
...race has inevitably suffered, for while in cop shows and historical movies race is an "issue," only in our most intimate domestic and social arenas can we see it as a multifaceted fact of life. For that reason alone, An American Love Story (PBS, Sept. 12-16, check local listings), a 10-hr. documentary about an interracial family, is noteworthy. What makes it extraordinary is how it shows a family--period--dealing with mundane life and marriage, from work to school to health scares, and on the way interrogates racial categories in America from every imaginable angle...
...could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces to make a state of emergency effective." Meanwhile, as Muscovites live in fear of having their homes blown up, their confidence is not bolstered by local police work. Authorities released a sketch and the name of the wanted man Monday ? someone who turns out to have been killed in a car accident in February...