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Despite the apparent reasons for prejudice, however, little antagonism exists between the diggers and the townspeople. The townspeople are well aware of Winchester's heritage, and look upon the Winchester excavations with generous pride. The considerable cooperation from the townsfolk and the local government alike has been one key to the remarkable success of the Winchester project, for without amiable community relations, an excavation that is so visible, and on so large a scale, in the heart of a busy city, could not have continued...
...starlings had found Radford a most enticing spot. They could feast on the grain that local farmers set out to feed their cattle, and they discovered an especially thick two-acre bosque of warm pines in the center of town, which was an ideal roosting place. The townsfolk, bird lovers all, did not find the situation all that ideal. Radford's starlings 1) raised an ear-splitting racket, 2) produced so many droppings that the whole town, said a resident, smelled "like a wet chicken coop," and 3) crowded out indigenous birds like cardinals, robins and martins. Since...
...surface, Poulin looks like a cop right out of Adam 12. He is 6 ft. tall, strapping, fresh-faced and gregarious. He owns a modest seven-room home, has a pretty wife and two healthy children. At 29, Poulin gets along equally well with the townsfolk and students from nearby Colby College. He likes to joke, likes aged bourbon, likes cold beer. Two nights a week he drives 15 miles to the University of Maine campus, where he studies psychology and English composition. He also heads a Boy Scout troop in the best Police Athletic League tradition...
...Duane (Jeff Bridges), carom slowly toward responsibility in Anarene. There the primary pastime, as always, is sex. Furtive sex. Tainted sex. Hand-on-the-thigh-in-the-back-seat sex. Nice girls never let boys go "all the way," and nice boys never deflower a virgin. All the townsfolk are decent types, but the featureless landscape and the oven-like days render them insensible. Any diversion suffices; the torturing of a feeble-minded boy soon becomes no more than an evening's entertainment...
...townsfolk insist that the prison guards treated their charges with fair discipline and genuinely tried to help them. The residents feel strongly that the riot occurred because of the "permissiveness" of state officials?notably Oswald, who is as heartily detested as the inmates. "Oswald was at fault," said Frank Mandeville, for many years the owner of Timm's Hardware. "If he had gone in right away, some lives might have been lost, but not on the tragic scale we have now." Mandeville, who still doubts that the hostages were killed by police bullets rather than knife wounds, insists: "Political pressure...