Word: small-town
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...bear on behalf of Debbie Lovett, 36, a manicurist with valve disease. Their client had a long history of smoking and high blood pressure, which suggests that more than diet drugs were at the root of her health problems. Still, she was awarded a whopping $23 million by a small-town jury. In the Linnen case a theatrical Boston attorney, Alex MacDonald, pleading passionately for Linnen's family and shredding the defense's witnesses, forced the drugmaker's high-powered legal team to capitulate in mid-trial and offer a multimillion-dollar settlement rather than risk an even larger jury...
...fiction shelf. Both are set in the prime film-noir territory of sunny, sepulchral California: Los Angeles, home of Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily faithful to the noir formula. The Lynch, which sails...
...Those small-town characters were the stuff of his novels. They were enchanting; but all their ambitions or philoso-phical inclinations were mocked by their modest means and their limited world. That was the basis of much of Narayan's human comedy, and it was like an extension of his religious sense...
...imagine that someone had built a theme park, just for you. It had a college campus right on it, and a charming street area that makes you think of a small town, or at least a small town with a subway and a million small-town folks in it. The theme park also has friendly homeless people who sell newspapers on the street, and an outdoor cafe in the center whose name you can pronounce, because you took a semester of French your freshman year. Of course, the essence of every theme park is to give you just enough...
Karen Young knows exactly when the bubble wrap took over. it was the day an 18-wheeler pulled up to her small-town Indiana home and unloaded a trailerload of the stuff. Bubble wrap filled her living room, gobbled up the hall and invaded her porch. "The neighbors had no idea what was going on," she says, laughing. They know now. Today Young presides over her own company, ShippingSupply.com and all that bubble wrap is now in a warehouse...