Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning the name of the town on the road map you're reading seems unnecessarily small. Then you notice how microscopic the print on the medicine bottle has become. How the addresses in the phone book have become exasperatingly inscrutable. And how they're just not printing paperback novels very well anymore: the text seems like one big blur...
Republicans are betting that this too will pass, that as with Jonesboro and Paducah, Pearl and Springfield, once the white coffins are in the ground and the cameras gone, the outrage will subside. But maybe not this time. In town meetings and talk radio, the public has had its fill of politicians talking resignedly about our gun culture, as if there's nothing to be done about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate...
...corporate offices around town, though, Goodman's critics are worried that his client list--which once included Meyer Lansky and is riddled with the names of other alleged mobsters--could spell trouble. Chamber of Commerce president Pat Shalmy says that if Goodman is elected, "the image we've been trying to improve over the years might be set back." Goodman responds by quoting his mother: "My son's clients don't hurt anybody. They just kill each other...
...Right now what is causing the most damage in our community is the presence of the Mexican army," said Lorenza Gomez Gonzalez. Gonzalez, a displaced Tzotzil woman from Chiapas, also blamed the Mexican army for bringing drug addiction, alcoholism and prostitution into her town...
Sadly, however, the venue in which most of the world's hip hop listeners live the music is at the shows where signed artists come to a town near you to perform their album material. Put simply, next to the cozier, more covert settings of what we can loosely term the "underground," such shows are just weak-wack. Typical rap artists either stand on stage with nothing entertaining to deliver except the mere presence of their stardom (e.g., Jay-Z), or they riddle their acts with gimmicky stage props or too many cohorts (e.g., Nas, Wu-Tang). Or they repeat...