Word: smalltowner
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...were unorganized in January on purpose," Glenn says, making the reasonable point that a full year before the first primaries is soon enough to begin electioneering in earnest. At the center of the "right stuff-wrong staff' controversy is Glenn's campaign manager, William White, a smalltown lawyer with a notable lack of political savvy, who has been Glenn's closest aide for nine years. Admits White: "Kennedy's withdrawal did leave us temporarily exposed, and during that time the spotlight on us was a little brighter than we wanted. We weren't quite...
...songs seemed to stand best on their own, unadorned, and that is the way they appear in the album, with just a minimum of technical refinement. Beginning with the title track, a bone chiller about Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the ten songs in Nebraska are set in the smalltown, working-class milieu that Springsteen has made his own. There, all lives are dead ends, but the turnpikes go on forever. Springsteen certainly has mined this territory before, but he makes the repetition work for him: he can get the same sort of mythic resonance from this setting that John...
John was a scrawny smalltown boy troubled by asthma, psoriasis and a stammer, a trace of which persists to this day. He knew before his tenth birthday that he wanted to be a writer. He left his rural home for four years at Harvard, one at Oxford and two as a reporter for The New Yorker. Although he gave up his staff job, Updike and the magazine have remained best of friends. Fees paid for his fiction and other contributions over the years allowed Updike to keep on writing, freeing him from the need to look for teaching jobs...
...never prepared to step outside the protective palisade of eastern Republican enlightened capitalist orthodoxy to take his stand ... It does credit to his seriousness of purpose that he long resisted, even disbelieved, the idea that a President was born of a thousand chicken dinners and a hundred thousand smalltown handshakes...
...actor, in 1969's Easy Rider. Hopper and Fonda had written it as a two-wheeled vehicle for themselves, but it was Nicholson who carried the confused, drugged saga out of the multitude of road pictures, playing the only non-hippie, non-redneck in the film, the young smalltown lawyer George Hansen. Hansen leaves home to ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning his old high school football helmet, and seeing the world for the first time through red eyes. Nicholson got the role as a fluke because Rip Torn dropped out; he finally got a break, after having...