Word: townsend
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Next week the 4,142 voters of Carmel will elect a mayor. New York City or Chicago should have such a choice. The incumbent, Charlotte Townsend, 61, is a no-nonsense woman who cut her teeth on the board of the village library. Paul Laub, 41, who has amassed a million or so as Carmel's czar of schlock, purveying T shirts and other bric-a-brac, made his name fighting city hall over issues like illegally washing his sidewalk. A college-trained tenor and restaurant worker named Tim Grady, 27, an echo of the Woodstock generation...
Fighting words, and Mayor Townsend has some of her own. "It's not entertainment," she sniffs. Dismissing Eastwood as "our cinema star," she says, "I understand that young women are rushing out of restaurants to assault him." That has been happening to Eastwood, 55, since he first sauntered across television screens in 1959 as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide and, in the mid-'60s, appeared as the taut-jawed, tight-lipped hero of three movies dubbed spaghetti westerns. But it is clearly not the kind of scene that the mayor likes to see playing in Carmel...
...Townsend prefers the Carmel of her past, preserved from fast-food outlets and the like. " 'Save our village' is not just a slogan," she says. "It's an appeal from the heart." Most Carmel residents agree, up to a point. McDonald's will never rear its golden arches within the one-square-mile village, and franchisers are likely to get a warmer reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little...
Except for a few brief flashbacks, the action, which consists of several days of soul-searching and philosophical debate among friends, takes place during a single Fourth of July weekend. On Friday night, Dave (Henry Jaglom) and Judy (Patrice Townsend)--who are actually ex-spouses in real life--spend a peaceful, romantic dinner together, eating whitefish, sipping wine and kissing. Dave's sauteed seafood is the first meal that he has prepared in the course of their their five-year marriage and, ironically, it is concocted to celebrate their divorce...
...Citizens Energy Corp., a successful nonprofit firm he founded in 1979 to provide low- cost heating oil to the state's poor. If he persuades Boston-area voters to send him to Washington, he just might help give Congress its first brother- sister act. His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 34, a public interest lawyer on leave from her job in the Maryland attorney general's office, is said to be considering running for the Second District in suburban Baltimore, where she has lived for about two years...