Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge is a little town that has gotten entrenched in its political system, "she says. "We were given just enough encouragement to continue [our efforts...
Bernard Lieberman was reared a child of privilege in a small town outside Lodz, Poland. He was one of nine children in an Orthodox Jewish family that lived largely off the money of affluent relatives and regularly opened up its home to poor neighbors. But that comfortable life swiftly ended on Sept. 1, 1939, when the Nazis stormed into Poland. Only 19, Bernard was soon separated from his siblings and transported from camp to camp, doing time in Auschwitz-Birkenau...
...star DeGeneres was before she came out? They do. DeGeneres told the Los Angeles Times last week that their careers have suffered since they went public with their relationship. Two days later, the couple said they were firing their agents, packing up the plants and moving out of town. According to their (still gainfully employed) publicist, Simon Halls, the whole thing was a big misunderstanding. "They're not quitting the business, but they've both been working very hard and are planning to take a break," says Halls. "It was a wistful thing...but there's fantasy and then there...
John Lasseter arrives for his interview in a big red bug with metal eyelashes. "Come see my bug!" he yells, grinning and waving from down the street. Wine connoisseurs in town to tour Sonoma's vineyards turn to stare. Kids point and giggle. The "bug" turns out to be a Volkswagen painted as a lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main...
Larry, at 62 one year younger than his brother, says disgustedly that there is little truth to Monty's portrait of their father, a gentle and kindly man known around town for his generosity. Among former townspeople who back up this view is Joyce Renebome, an aunt roughly the brothers' age who often stayed overnight at the Roberts' house. She and her daughter Debbie Ristau are writing a protest book, Horse Whispers and Lies. Both Larry and Renebome say they never saw any beatings. Larry and Monty shared a bedroom and took baths together; Larry says he would have known...