Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maybe it goes back to a small-town beginning in which you were aware of how people rallied around whenever there was a need," replied the native of Dixon, Ill., when asked if he felt a special relationship with the American people. "And then, another plus that I would repeat if I had to do it over again: I went to a quite small college, and in a small college there is no way you can be anonymous . . . I don't think even like is enough of a word. I love people...
...Americans tend to be generous because they recognize lonesomeness in everybody, and through that lonesomeness they've learned that folks are pretty much worth the same, that we're all in the same boat. At sundown I'll haul the raft to a lake in the middle of some town, and watch the lights pop on one by one like signal fires, like the town was findin' its mind in the dark...
...previously promised to the Philippines but then held up in the complicated U.S. foreign aid appropriation process. While Aquino gladly accepted the funds, several Filipino officials grumbled that the check was not nearly generous enough. Retorted Shultz: "It's only $200 million, but I'm still a small-town boy and I think that's a lot of money...
...played a townswoman meeting a bus. Just now she is watching another scene being shot and reshot: Sissy Spacek, as the youngest MaGrath sister, Babe, looking on forlornly as her 15- year-old black lover Willie Jay and his dog Dog, each wearing sunglasses as disguise, leave town on the same bus. (Babe, who is impulsive, has shot her nasty husband Zackery, leaving him perforated but not terminated, and he has threatened to do bad things to Willie Jay.) The dog actor, whose real name is Casey, is supposed to turn and look at Spacek as the bus starts. Casey...
Southport, where all of these dogged takes are going on, has been occupied territory since early May. It is a pretty and formerly sleepy little resort and fishing town, with a white clapboard church and live oak trees shading wooden houses with deep-set front porches. Town elders were unenthusiastic about becoming part of Mississippi, as the script stipulates, and having the town square blockaded. Then it was pointed out that the film company would spend a lot of money in town--$3 million or more is the current guess. Done. Once the deal was cut, the production company rented...