Word: small-town
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...group's highly regarded artistic director, Jon Jory, is an adventurous risk-taker, but this time he may simply have put together too speculative a production portfolio. His gamble on a front-porch theme of exploring U.S. rural small-town roots, ranging in time from 1915 to 1951, produces the unintended illusion of leafing through old Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell...
...role of Bluto Blutarsky was just a featured part, not much larger than the ones he played in Old Boyfriends and Goin' South. But audiences cheered as Bluto bellowed "Food fight!" in a crowded cafeteria, or scaled CONTACT the walls of a sorority, or totaled a small-town parade. Belushi, who left SNL in 1979, teamed with Aykroyd for two even more manic movies, 1941 and The Blues Brothers, which extorted laughs from car and plane wrecks. Trash the world, I want...
...heart" Playboy quote in 1976. But Koch's comments may well cause greater political embarrassment. "Anyone who suggests I run for Governor," he confided to Playboy, "is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst." Upstate Republicans, who regard Koch as the strongest Democratic candidate, were delighted by his loose talk. Koch was asked if he would like to buy up all copies of the magazine? His answer: "If I could afford it, yes." For once, the mayor may not have been...
When the long-awaited assault came, Marathon Oil was well prepared to man the battlements. Within hours after the Mobil Corp. announced its $5.1 billion bid to buy the 17th largest U.S. petroleum company, members of Marathon's big-time defense team were flying to its small-town headquarters in Findlay, Ohio (pop. 38,000). Marathon was putting into action the now classic defense in a takeover battle...
...Connor's literary roots owed much to small-town gossip. His father was a laborer who measured his days in pints. But the future writer had a strong mother figure in Minnie O'Donovan. She put bread on the table by working as a domestic, and acquired a taste for the classics by reading her employers' books. Minnie passed the love of Shakespeare and poetry on to her son. He later returned the love by publishing under her maiden name...