Word: small-town
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...mind, Jersey has energy. Jersey has a sense of humor about itself. Jersey has an in-your-face attitude. And Trenton is large enough that you could imagine that it would have a decent amount of crime. It has this small-town kind of environment, second-generation Americans, working-class people. This is my background. This is what I feel comfortable with...
...sure Jamestonians like seeing pictures of Erstad on the wall, but a big part of the allure of Applebee's for small-town residents is its connection with the larger American culture. "When Applebee's opened here, people really thought Jamestown was finally on the map," says Robert Carlson, president of the Farmers Union and a Jamestown resident. Carlson chuckled at this - he prefers local food - but he appears to be part of a vanishing, romantic minority. Applebee's was packed both times I went - even at lunch, nearly every seat was filled. The local restaurants - places Darin Erstad might...
...house. The classic of the genre is, of course, The Man Who Came to Dinner, which, as we speak, is doubtless playing in a community theater somewhere in the United States. You remember: an arrogant author, on lecture tour, falls, breaks his leg and must stay with a small-town family for weeks, wreaking havoc on their formerly orderly lives...
...thundering start. Within seven weeks, the Progressives had established the party in nearly every state and were back in Chicago for their first national convention. But who were the Progressives? Although Republicans of the day cast the Progressives as radicals, in truth they were teachers and lawyers, farmers and small-town folk, urban reformers of every ilk, crusaders for peace and women's suffrage, champions of the little guy. They were less a movement than a catch basin for civic-minded men and women impatient with politics as usual but a bit frightened of Eugene V. Debs and his Socialist...
...most powerful man in Iran avoids the gilded trappings of office. While many of the officials who serve under him build Caspian Sea villas and travel in caravans of shiny new SUVs, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme religious leader, conducts himself with the modesty of a small-town mullah. He receives visitors in spare, undecorated offices in downtown Tehran and often runs meetings seated on the floor and wearing a plain black robe. Billboards with his portrait are ubiquitous in the capital, depicting Khamenei more as a rumpled civil servant than a revolutionary, with thick glasses and rough...