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...television and movie documentarian ("The Selling of the Pentagon" and "Hearts and Minds"), and his technique in Hometown draws on this video background. The book consists of several contiguous but not exactly connected vignettes: a high school basketball game, a murder and subsequent trial, a bitter strike, a hot rumor. These usually fascinating little dramas, it seems, are metaphors for life in Hamilton, which is, in turn, a metaphor for life in these United States Sort of a little far removed...
...Portsmouth Diner and talk, as it tends to at this time of year, turned to politics...") Davis has a terrific feel for the mechanics of social rituals and hierarchies, and the best of Hometown uncovers a city only an insider could know. He tells of a widely believed rumor linking the handsome, popular WASP mayor to the socially prominent wife of a close Jewish friend; the "social marketplace" of Hamilton, a beauty shop frequented by women of diverse backgrounds; and, finally in the book's dramatic conclusion, the trial of a popular music teacher for masturbating in a department store...
...event and its aftermath as the climax of Sunset Strip. In the days after Pryor was found in shock a few blocks from his Northridge, Calif., home, his attorney declared that he had accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more credible for a man who had made habitual use of cocaine part of his onstage act. They said that Pryor had been "freebasing"-mixing coke with ether to produce a more concentrated substance, a high with a mule kick-when the ether exploded...
Ashton would not predict what effect the recent incidents will have or Arboretum attendance. "We don't get a lot of negative calls but there is always an undercurrent of rumor...
...enjoys being the Canadian Brooke Shields and modeling his own line of jeans. He likes having his name on the lips of the President of the U.S. ("Rumor has it, Wayne, that Washington has been trying to trade to get you," Reagan quipped at an All-Stars luncheon at the White House. "I asked what Edmonton is getting in return, and they told me two first-round picks and the state of Texas.") Gretzky doesn't even mind jumping up on Canadian talk shows and joining his girlfriend, Singer Vickie Moss, 20, in a squeaky rendition of Mama...