Word: towns
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...show concerns four friends--Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny--who live in the small town of South Park, Colo. Obsessed by bodily functions, sometimes cruel but with a core of innocence, Kyle and Stan are modeled on Parker and Stone, while Cartman, the greedy fat kid, is a deranged fantasy figure and Kenny, who talks in meaningless muffled squeaks, dies violently in each episode (except the Christmas one). Kyle's exclamation, "Oh, my God, they've killed Kenny!," has become a catchphrase. The only sympathetic adult is Chef, the cook at the school, who drifts into a racy...
Parker is from a small town in Colorado, and Stone grew up in a Denver suburb; they met when they attended film school at the state university in Boulder. In 1994 Brian Graden, who was an executive at Fox, saw their live-action film Cannibal: The Musical, and the connection that led to South Park was made. Graden says he couldn't get anyone interested in Cannibal, South Park or other ideas he tried to develop with Parker and Stone, among them a TV series about two apes who hang upside down and sing. To help his proteges...
...pounded the bus and slashed its tires. As usual, local police had a gentleman's agreement with the Ku Klux Klan and stayed away. The bus limped five miles out of town, escorted by a caravan of pickup trucks, and stopped. Someone threw a fire bomb inside, and the crowd yelled, "Roast them! Burn them alive!" The Freedom Riders staggered off the smoking bus, and as one, Hank Thomas, hit the ground, reeling from fumes, a white man asked solicitously, "Are you O.K.?" And then took a baseball bat and swung at Thomas as hard as he could...
...students at the Ohio State University town meeting should be thoroughly ashamed of their actions [CLINTON'S CRISES, March 2]. High officers of government, like the Secretaries of State and Defense, deserve to be treated with respect. Has common courtesy disappeared from our fast-paced society? What happened at the meeting was not free speech; it was coarse brutality of the lowest type. The president of the university and a spokesperson for the students should apologize for this incident. LEE D. MACKEY Rutledge...
...watched the Ohio town meeting live on television and saw it differently from the way you reported it, and so did all my friends. There were perhaps a dozen rude, nihilistic hecklers with no concern for courtesy, order and civility, and we thought they needed to be forcibly removed. Yet instead of focusing on audience support for Secretary Madeleine Albright and applause for her admonition that the rest of the audience wanted to hear what the Administration officials had to say, the American media widely broadcast the protests in 60-second sound bites. I live close to Saddam's borders...