Word: townsperson
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...sinister afoot in the attempt to trademark Katonah for dozens and dozens of product categories, from lamps to curtain rods to belt racks. After all, many of the village's shops, such as Katonah Yarn and Katonah Architectural Hardware, use the name. Could Stewart's company someday prevent a townsperson from opening, say, the Katonah Lighting Store...
Gesturing wildly in the air, a logician concludes that Socrates was in fact a cat while a townsperson-turned-rhinoceros roams the village. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” shines when presenting such over-the-top antics; but true victory lies in its profound and stirring interpretation of the work’s dark underlying themes...
...Another townsperson won over by canine charm is Gloria Dump, (Cicely Tyson) the town eccentric who “sees better with her heart than her eyes.” She inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
...Another townsperson won over by canine charm is Gloria Dump, (Cicely Tyson) the town eccentric who “sees better with her heart than her eyes.” She inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
Estimates of Bordersville's current population range from 500 to 1000. ("There's just no way of telling," declares one townsperson.) Most of the families have lived there for two and three generations, and though most claim to own the land they live on, few can produce written deeds or titles. They live there simply by squatter's rights, as yet unchallenged by land-hungry developers though the value of their property has skyrocketed with the construction of the airport...
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