Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crackdown began when police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a right-wing rally last Sunday in the provincial town of Nandaime. More than 40 protesters were arrested, including four opposition leaders, who were later sentenced to six months in prison. Next day the government suspended the opposition daily La Prensa for 15 days and shut down Radio Catolica, run by the Roman Catholic Church. The moves brazenly violated President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's solemn vows to uphold civil rights. Meanwhile, the Sandinistas confiscated the vast San Antonio sugar plantation, the country's largest private business...
...singer, and I will always be a country singer because I talk like this," he says in a striking Panhandle rasp. "What I'm doing is country and rock, and I don't think they are mutually exclusive terms." It is no easy matter to convince everyone, though. Guitar Town, his seminal 1986 MCA album, was full of great tunes -- Springsteen on a two-lane blacktop -- and should have settled all conflicts of style. But, he reports, "I'm at war with the record company on the West Coast about using steel guitar and mandolin...
...national city, Atlanta is now so removed from the rest of the state that you sometimes hear talk of "two Georgias" -- meaning modern prosperous Atlanta and backward, impoverished everything else. Atlanta is free at last. The traces of a Georgia town -- a big Georgia town, but still a Georgia town -- are gradually disappearing, as the suburban office parks fill up with Yankees. Even people who sound like they might be from Georgia seem to be disappearing. Atlanta magazine ran a story called The Vanishing Southerner -- a character who can be heard, as he fades away, grumbling that all the places...
...Dukakis-Boukis marriage was meant to instill. Stelian attempted suicide, and was committed to mental care. He lived on, erratically, for 22 more years, haunting the outskirts of his brother's career, organizing with him in the heady days of the C.O.D., winning his own term on the town-meeting committee, then changing party, competing for the votes of his parents (who had to change their registration to Republican when Stelian was on that ticket), trying to sabotage a campaign by his brother. In 1973 his bike was hit by a runaway driver; he lingered in the hospital for four...
Classmate Ansin says of Brookline: "A lot of stars came out of that town." But in 1951 the predominating star was a senior people already thought of as the Inevitable Michael. He was president of the honor society, good at sports, a trumpeter in the band. "Whatever it was, he ran for it," according to his mother. When he was rated only as the equal of his girlfriend, Sandy Cohen (Bakalar), in French, Michael found out this was because of her superior accent, and he practiced his pronunciation. He did not like losing, even to friends. He signed her yearbook...