Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several hundred people watched roughly 40 minutes of a 1936 Frank Capra film, "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," and then discussed the film with the experts in an informal question-and-answer session in the symposium, "Film as an Art Form...
...town has Bird's word that this year's edition would have beaten the '84 and '81 champions. "Definitely, they would have taken our '74 and '76 teams," adds John Havlicek, the retired god. "They're much better. But the '60s teams--they'd have to play them." For that matter, the Celtics still have to play the Rockets, though with two to five games left in the tournament, Coach Bill Fitch was already invoking General Custer, and 7-ft. 4- in. Ralph Sampson, who caught an elbow instead of a break, had a seam of sorrowful stitches sewn along...
...sunny market square in Wiener Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna, is a reassuring vision of small-town tranquillity. Leathery-faced farmers and their wives sell vegetables and wurst from stalls. The local citizenry--some of the men dressed in lederhosen, the women in dirndls--greet one another with elaborate courtesy, a scene that evokes the continuity of old traditions. In fact, the town square's ancient buildings were ruins 41 years ago, flattened by Allied bombing, and were later lovingly reconstructed...
Another day Malcolm White was in the town of Leland, down on Sinclair Street, where he looked in on James ("Son") Thomas, whom he occasionally books to play in Jackson. Malcolm said he just saw Jack Owens, and Son recalled that he played with Jack years ago, the first time he had ever played outside and the first time he had seen a man knifed. Son was working on a clay sculpture of a skull, in which he inserted real teeth he got from a dental college in Oxford. As he worked on his porch, he recalled his years...
...family, he says, "is really into the Pentacostal, fundamentalists Bible-thumping revivalist tradition of born-again Christianity" associated with the Moral Majority. For much of his childhood, his family also was quite poor, living "in a mobile home in a dingy little trailer park in the outskirts of town." He says, however, that his family has become more financially secure in recent years...