Word: townsfolk
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...filmmakers were politicians: they would be using the new Mississippi to depict the old. Mostly, the shooting proceeded without incident. Sometimes, though, old images must have haunted the older townsfolk. One day Colesberry spotted one of the crew's pickup trucks toting a huge Klan cross through town and had the driver cover it up. During the ten-week shoot, derelict churches and other structures were set ablaze; production paused while the ashes cooled down. One evening the company assembled to film the burning of a local black church, which had been bought and would be rebuilt to the congregation...
...repressive measures to dampen the spirit of rebellion. With revenues from the occupied territories slashed as much as 50% by a Palestinian tax boycott, the government has begun staging "tax raids." Some 9,000 residents of Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem, were placed under curfew for a week after 300 townsfolk threw away their Israeli identity cards to protest orders to pay back taxes. When a mob stoned Israeli cars in the village of Beit Omer a few weeks ago, the authorities retaliated by refusing to issue market permits to 50 local fruit growers; now millions of dollars worth of plums...
...scene might have been lifted from the final reel of a western starring John Wayne or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan: thousands of adoring townsfolk cheer as the hero, rigged out in cowboy duds, rides off on a white horse. And just in case some member of the U.S. Congress missed the significance of the white hat cocked on his head, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra spelled out his good intentions last week during celebrations to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua. In an effort to diminish U.S. anger over the expulsion of its Ambassador to Managua...
...Ervin of North Carolina. His values are rooted in North Carolina's Piedmont. Monroe, whose population was 3,000 when Helms was growing up there, was profoundly conservative. Schools were segregated, and once a year flowers were placed on the graves of the Confederate war dead. Yet most townsfolk assumed that the devil was a Republican, which made it all the more shocking when Helms became the state's first G.O.P. Senator of this century...
...course, sweetly, soberly mad. She fills the house with her collections of newspapers and tin cans, carries crackers around in case she runs into a woodland sprite, gets a kick out of it when the house is flooded, and is obviously an unfit stepparent. The outraged townsfolk, with their passion for convention, soon influence Lucille, the younger, staider of the girls. Ruth is made of sterner, that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that...