Word: towns
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Drew's mother Pat Golden, postmaster in a nearby town, was at work on the day of the shooting. That afternoon, she had her son on her mind, having just learned that there had been a shooting at the school. Pat withdrew quietly to a back room, where a friend heard her crying softly, worried for Drew's safety. Her husband Dennis called to say authorities didn't know the whereabouts of their son. "Then," recalls Joyce Prater, a friend and former colleague who had stopped by for stamps, "the phone rang again. Pat let out a terrible, terrible scream...
...That evening, as a hundred would-be donors waited at both locations, the station had to ask people to stay home. All the banks opened accounts for donations pouring in for the victims. White has become the color of Jonesboro's grief--and community. The entire town and virtually every citizen wears white ribbons, as if sins as red as blood could be washed as white as snow...
...With reporting by Peter Hawthorne/Cape Town, Rachel Salaman/Mexico City and Alexandra Stiglmayer/Berlin
...going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...
...bitter day for this town if the world comes to an end," a lady in the grocery shop sighs during the Cuban missile crisis, and that about sums up the locals' world view. But it does not begin to suggest the complexity of the movie Neil Jordan has fashioned from Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher...