Word: versions
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That's the town Hawley thought she was moving to, but in her years here she has caught but one glimpse of the place. It happened, she tells the group, in 1992, when Columbia Pictures came to town to shoot old-time street scenes for the movie version of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. The film crew closed off downtown and spruced up the old buildings, turning the place into a roseate vision of itself--and attracting hundreds of Wilmingtonians to Main Street. "People were mingling, striking up conversations and laughing," says Hawley, "and suddenly they could remember what...
...place. Ruth wants one. Mike doesn't, because their new subdivision has no sidewalks or street life. "Who wants to sit there and have people drive by gawking at us?" he asks. Sycamore Glen isn't a town at all, just a scattering of houses--a smaller, friendlier version of the suburb they came here to get away from...
...believe homosexual sex is wrong. There is, of course, some evidence that homosexuality is something of a fad among young people. On a few college campuses, the term "gay until graduation" is used derisively to describe those who experiment with gay sex. Gay equality has nonetheless become a '90s version of Birkenstock environmentalism for many youths. Even in certain parts of suburbia, gay is becoming more than O.K.; it's cool...
Lewis' first step abroad was to Bophuthatswana, in South Africa. In 1991 Lewis, who by then had started a company named the Plantworks, was hired to decorate a new entertainment complex called Lost City. She produced an indoor mock version of the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Since then she has created artificial environments for casinos in Switzerland, Peru, Aruba and the Philippines. Plantworks has grown into a company employing 21 workers and chalking up annual sales of $2 million, as much as 20% of that abroad; president Lewis thinks it may double sales every year for the next five years...
...Sinatra for the '90s. Although he broke into jazz a decade ago as a solo pianist influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum, his career veered sharply toward big-band and string-arranged music after his 1989 sound track, When Harry Met Sally, went multi-platinum. When his version of the classic It Had to Be You--with Connick singing--became a hit, he began moving his repertoire closer toward pop, writing, as he did on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light, jaunty big-band tunes that echoed the pop standards of the 1940s and '50s. He even came...