Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton silent gem called Seven Chances. The put-upon bachelor first botches things with his steady girlfriend, then must propose to everyone he knows until a newspaper story phoned in by his friend brings a stampede of bridegowned fortune-seekers chasing him through town...
...sponsor the next tour? We weren't given any new songs on Saturday night; is Guster reaching its creative limit? Will the millennium finally render the video cameras useless and prevent the swarm of cameramen from attacking the band at the next show? Until their next return to town, we can only speculate...
...says the strategies she uses to make travel plans can bring other costs. Being out of town several days every week means she misses classes and gets behind on school work...
...Somerville on Kirkland Street is always a strange thing. Stepping over that invisible border does more than simply change the street signs from green to blue. It acts as a type of psychological time warp, taking this traveler out of Cambridge 1999 and delivering her into an industrial 1950s town. Instantly, an influx of dilapidated, mint-green, triple-decker houses dot the streets and countless abandoned businesses with fading airbrushed signs line up next to one another...
...Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" 60 years ago convinced one million people in the New York-New Jersey region that aliens had landed in nearby Grover's Mill Pond. Some of the local farmers got so carried away by the tale that they shot up the town's water tower, believing it to be an invading ship...